The exhibition Ink in Milk explores the patterns of resistance that emerge from vulnerability. The works on display offer insight into different yet equally challenging experiences: the fragile yet powerful; intimate, personal, and at the same time political experiences of exhaustion, motherhood and living with mixed abilities. Rather than viewing vulnerability as an individual issue, the exhibition approaches it as a social phenomenon.
The artworks highlight experiences that are often taboo, hidden, masked, or suppressed: the acknowledgment of motherhood’s contradictions, the shame of mental breakdown, the divergence from normative sensory experiences caused by disability, and the sight of bodies tormented by medical procedures. Instead of focusing primarily on solving physically and mentally demanding or challenging situations, the artworks highlight tactics and strategies that unsettle the hierarchies embedded within them.
Thus, fragility and vulnerability appear not as weaknesses but as sources of strength; illness, mental overload, and exhaustion are not portrayed as passive states, but as potential sites of resistance. In this way, withdrawal and slowing down can also be understood as forms of political action.