Vessel is an exhibition that reflects on the complexity of sustaining another being’s life, and the malleable barrier between self and other. 

Sunniva Allanic’s sculpture lies in the center of the space: a fleshy tunnel through which air and time flow. It remains unclear whether this creature—nearly, but not quite, a familiar shape—requires our care to maintain itself. Ultimately, the work questions our role as humans, asking us to consider the nature of our intervention in the lives of other beings. On all the walls, 

Steffi Drerup’s photographic series “Mamma” collaborates with mothers to create portraits of breastfeeding. The act of nurturing another’s dependent body, and the blurred line of when that body should be left to thrive or fail on its own, are the driving forces of both artists’ works, transforming the gallery into a place where body becomes sustenance, air becomes breath, and audience becomes witness.