A mother, as cultural construct, is not reducible to the biological function of bearing and nursing children. She is instead a dense node of social inscription—a figure produced through interlocking systems of discourse, law, economy, and symbolic order. Long before biological motherhood, womanhood is already being scripted; the maternal voice carries traces of that scripting, of what accepts and refuses it, but, more importantly, of what the script never reached.

The installation opens a space between the maternal voice still bearing those traces and the child as undifferentiated life force not yet captured by them. Here, we navigate between conditioning and the awareness that perceives conditioning as such. It is a way of listening to the mystery that the cultural mother simultaneously transmits and occludes.

Location: Moholy-Nagy Saal Back-Side, Collegium Hungaricum