Love shit

Foam presents the first museum solo exhibition of Verena Blok. The exhibition Love shit delves into the complexities of womanhood and reproductive justice through a deeply personal yet politically charged lens. Emerging from the artist’s dual experience of her work at a Dutch abortion clinic and her own pregnancy, the project weaves together portrait photographs, close-ups, abstract imagery, scenes of children at play, and fragments of diaries, notes and observations. Love shit moves between tenderness and unease in Blok’s emotionally ambivalent exploration of maternal identity, freedom of choice, and bodily autonomy; issues that carry increasing urgency as women’s reproductive rights come under growing pressure worldwide.