A spokesperson says---
"...This group exhibition brings together six intergenerational and international feminist artists—Sholeh Asgary, Patricia Belli, Kiyo Gutierrez, Jessie Homer French, Erin Jane Nelson, and Sunaura Taylor— whose work explores how rivers, oceans, aquifers, swamps, and aqueducts shape human and more-than-human life. Across performance, sound, sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography, the exhibition considers water as a connective force that links bodies, ecosystems, and histories. The artists engage both the conditions of specific sites and the broader systems water sustains, reframing it not as a passive resource but as an active medium through which life unfolds.
The exhibition is informed by scholar Astrida Neimanis’s concept of hydrofeminism, a theoretical framework for rethinking our relationship to water. It proposes that nothing exists in isolation and that no body—human or otherwise—is ever pure. Every drop is shared, circulating across species, geographies, and histories. Crucially, hydrofeminism asks us to imagine ourselves as bodies of water. In this view, embodiment is porous and continuously formed through exchanges with other bodies and environments. This shift is not only philosophical but practical, reframing responsibility and care in relation to damaged ecosystems. If we are inseparable from rivers, oceans, and aquifers, their contamination and depletion are conditions we share and are implicated in. The works... take up this call by refiguring the human through forms of representation that render water as a medium of relation, memory, and transformation. In doing so, the exhibition suggests that rethinking the boundaries of the body is essential to imagining how we might repair the waterways that sustain life..."
