By Đỗ Tường Linh

ANI LIU (CUCHIFRITOS GALLERY + PROJECT SPACE, NEW YORK)

Drawing on in-depth social research, Ani’s “Ecologies of Care” tackled the thornier issues of motherhood. The project might be read as a continuation of the legacy of Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document, 1973–79, but Ani managed to elevate and complicate similar material to reflect the increasing role of technology in parenting. Set within the commercial Essex Market, the show easily could have been mistaken for a storefront. It is in the very heart of mundane everyday life that the work wields the most meaning.