The Consumer Pregnancy ReportsTM

A set of ritual devices and consumable products related to pregnancy. Centered around experiences typically considered “inconvenient”, these speculative products investigate our cultural relationship to pregnancy as mediated by artefacts.

This installation reifies experiential aspects of pregnancy into consumer oriented products, with labels selling these experiences as moments of growth an adaptation into motherhood. This work reflects on the plethora of contradictory messages women receive on the journey to motherhood. 

I wrote an article for this piece for Biodesigned, which can be read here.

Ani Liu

Ani Liu is a research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity.

Ani's work has been presented internationally, including the forthcoming Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society. She has been featured on National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, TED, Core77, PBS, PCMag, FOX and WIRED.  

She is the winner of the Princeton Arts Fellowship (2019-2021), Groot Foundation Award (2020), the S&R Washington Prize (2018), the YouFab Global Creative Awards (2018), the Biological Art & Design Award (2017).  Ani has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab.

She is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently teaching at Princeton University. Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling.  Her studio is based in New York City. 

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