A cafe scene is set, tables for audience members. At one table sits a mother and her baby. The audience are invited to sit, and offered tea, but they must wait for the milk, collected from lacy moulded breastcups by the waitress and placed on their table.
In Breastcups, the maternal body becomes displaced through its setting, displayed and extended through umbilical tubes, and feeding paraphernalia, surrounded by napkins and politeness. As with the films, this intimate, basic act of nurture is stretched into a world of ‘manners’ and tea time, the natural act confronting convention through forced etiquette.
Exhibited at Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff 23rd-29th May 2010
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