Each thread pulled,
each knot bound,
each breath exhaled
— a ritual of return.
At the heart of “Weaving Wombspace: Love-Making in the Constellations” lies an ancient story stretched across the stars: the celestial lovers Altair and Vega—the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl—whose love was once forbidden by the heavenly court. Separated by the Milky Way, they are fated to reunite only once a year, when magpies form a living bridge across the celestial river.
This exhibition is not just a poetic homage to the myth—it is a ritual site where longing, love, and labor converge. The Milky Way becomes more than an astral barrier; it is the membrane between womb and sky, grief and birth, memory and making. These artists thread together materials that breathe, bend, bleed, and remember—fiber, wire, flora, hair—each one a constellation of its own.
“Weaving Wombspace” invites audiences into an intimate cosmos of suspended bodies and offerings: works born of ecological grief, intergenerational memory, and feminine devotion. Sculptures hang like stars, each one a quiet witness to love stretched across lifetimes. This show is a soft place—where myth becomes muscle, ritual becomes structure, and the invisible labor of mothers, lovers, and weavers becomes radiant and seen.
We draw from the Qixi Festival, a holiday still celebrated in China and Japan (Tanabata), which honors the lovers’ annual reunion on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In 2025, Qixi fell on August 29, setting the cosmic tone for this exhibition.
Suspended in the Culver City loft space, under a vaulted ceiling that becomes a metaphorical sky, the works echo the constellations of Lyra (Vega) and Aquila (Altair), bound by invisible threads of yearning. This is love-making not of flesh but of myth—gestures across galaxies, silent rituals whispered into wire, thread, and plant matter.
Featured Artists:
Kyong Boon Oh
Known for her visceral wire sculptures, Oh’s work engages in a silent, multigenerational dialogue—between her six-year-old self, her adult self, and her late mother. Her ID ME series, woven from chicken wire, steel, and brass, draws blood in its making—an embodied practice of grief and devotion rooted in her Christian upbringing. Through prayer and glossolalia (speaking in tongues), Oh transforms the act of weaving into sacred chant. Her sculptures hang like suspended spirits—aching, remembering, reaching.
Snežana Saraswati Petrović
Petrović constructs altar-like installations of orchids, grasses, tubing, and industrial fragments, collapsing the boundary between decay and bloom. Her works evoke a soft apocalypse—ecofeminist shrines grounded in Taoist and Buddhist understandings of impermanence. Trained in performance and Eastern philosophies, she transforms ephemeral flora into quiet gestures of mourning and care—sites where nature and plastic, spirit and residue, cohabit.
Victoria May
May salvages fabric, hair, and buried textiles, stitching trauma and recovery into tender anatomical forms. Her sculptures—some like flayed skins, others like collapsed constellations—hold space for rupture and repair. Trained in theatrical costume, she treats each material as memory: folded, stitched, pierced, and unraveled. Her forms embody the womb not as an idealized space, but as a liminal zone—an interior cosmos where grief can become myth.
About the Curator:
Ann Shi is a nomadic curator, writer, and art appraiser based in Los Angeles. Founder of a poco art collective, her practice bridges mythology, ritual, and ecological grief—inflected by Taoist cosmology, Chinese classical texts, and feminist theory. She holds degrees from the University of Oxford and Sotheby’s Institute of Art and is a USPAP-compliant appraiser and member of the Appraisers Association of America. Her work imagines curating as a form of cosmological care.
About the Space:
a poco art collective is a roving curatorial platform and alternative archive that reimagines domestic and intimate spaces as ceremonial sites of exhibition. Based in Culver City and expanding across borders, a poco weaves feminist ecology, ancestral memory, and mythic storytelling into experimental presentation formats grounded in care, slowness, and ritual.
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📩 ann@apoco.art
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