Jenna Sutela. HMO Nutrix

HMO Nutrix, 2022 is a fountain of synthetic human milk, powered by breast pumps and further animated with biomimetic throat singing. The artist describes the sculpture as a “live milk feed”.

The work meditates on feedback mechanisms between human and non-human life forms bonding through body fluids. The fluid in the sculpture includes Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs), potent sugars found in breastmilk that feed babies’ gut bacteria and seem to shape the development of their nervous systems. 

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Picture: Jenna Sutela, "From Hierarchy to Holarchy", 2017, © Jenna Sutela, Photo: Mikko Gaestel