Untitled (pumping) 

The breastpump, first patented in 1854, presents knotty potentials, both liberating and limiting. Its presence allows for the disentanglement of body and milk, which can simultaneously empower choice and obligate postpartum bodies back into the labor force with the assumption that all spectrums of society can balance the demands of paid work and care work. Programmed to the rhythm of the artist’s breast pump, the volume circulating represents a week’s worth of milk pumped in the workplace.