Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh & Rian Ciela Hammond
m/other becomings exhibition – Instalment I
5–28 May, 2022

m/other becomings is an exhibition in two instalments and part of a larger multiyear collaboration among cultural organisations, artists, and thinkers and connect to a symposium which will take place June 9-10th at Aalto Design Factory.

m/other becomings takes a closer look at the im/possibilities of mothering, not as an essence, but as troubled practice and as a modest, utopian, and oftentimes exhausted precursor of hope. We want to ask what it means – and may come to mean – to make, to mend, to make space for kin despite and against the social reproduction of sameness and compliance, and the (bio)politics of gendered and racialized violence. m/other becomings also explores reproductive futures and asks if life sciences allow transforming and challenging our ideas and possibilities of reproduction and the maternal.

The first instalment of the m/other becomings exhibition includes works from Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh, and Rian Ciela Hammond. Instalment II, will include works by Marta de Menezes, Pekko Vasantola and Margharita Pevere. It will be shown at SOLU Space from 9-30 June.