Mutating Matters
Exhibition

Date: November 8th – 29th 2025
Entry: Free
Visiting hours: 12 pm – 4 pm
Location: The Culture Yard, Broen
Address: Allegade 2, Helsingør, Denmark,
This exhibition brings together works that explore how bodies are shaped, extended, and reimagined in relation to technologies, environments, and cultural imaginaries. Rather than presenting the body as a closed system, the artists reveal it as porous, mutable, and deeply entangled with forces beyond itself. Here, the body becomes a dynamic interface—never static, always in dialogue with what surrounds it, whether technological, environmental, social, or political.
At stake are urgent questions of reproduction, care, and justice. The works confront the technologization of pregnancy and the ways reproductive capacities are distributed, controlled, or shared. They ask what it means to reimagine kinship and survival when biology itself becomes a site of intervention, and how rituals of care and maintenance might serve as counterpoints to exploitation and inequality. In doing so, the exhibition highlights how struggles over bodies and reproduction are inseparable from larger struggles over power and the right to shape our collective futures.
In connection to The European Digital Deal, the exhibition invites reflection on how emerging technologies and digital infrastructures shape both our bodies and identities. As the boundaries between the human and the machinic blur, these works challenge traditional notions of reproduction, labor, and memory. They insist on a deeper understanding of the long-term implications of these transformations, reminding us that what matters—biological, imagined, and speculative—is already mutating, already calling us to reimagine how our bodies might resist, transform, and actively shape the world around us
Exhibiting artists
Erin Robinson (UK)
Erin Robinson (GB) is a multimedia artist and researcher critically engaging with AI, virtuality, and digital subjectivity. Her work explores fractured selves, mediated identities and synthetic affect, reflecting on authenticity and embodiment in the Digital Anthropocene.
https://xxxmachina.com/
Ani Liu (US/CH)
Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art & technoscience.
Integrating emerging technologies with cultural reflection and social change, Ani’s most recent work examines the biopolitics of reproduction, labor, care work and motherhood.
https://ani-liu.com/
Ai Hagesawa (JP)
Hasegawa builds provocative prototypes and narrative installations that stage near-future scenarios of reproduction, kinship, consumption, and care. Her projects operate as “ethical thought experiments,” using plausible technologies to expose the social contracts and power dynamics hiding inside our desires.
https://aihasegawa.info/
Ida Lunden (DK)
Lunden’s artistic practice includes sculpture, graphics and performance. Her sensuous works lend form to emotions and states of cohesion, grief and care, and death and mortality. Through recurring explorations of motherhood, she reflects on the body as both origin and vessel, tracing its vulnerability and generative power. Her work often considers how maternal experience shapes collective memory and cycles of renewal.
https://idalunden.cargo.site/
Charlotte Jarvis (UK) In collaboration with Dr. Patricia Saragüeta (AR)
Charlotte Jarvis is artist and lecturer working at the intersection of art and science. Her practice often utilises living cells and DNA: She has recorded music onto DNA, seen her heart beat outside of her body and is currently making the world’s first female sperm. Her recent work explores the future of reproduction and conceptualises the body as a liminal space – a site for transformation, hybridisation and magic.
https://cjarvis.com/about-me/
