In the textile work Unnamed,  erratic red stitches join cut pieces of second-hand baby clothes, bath towels and bonnets. Fixed to the wall with dissection pins, Barkun’s seven Frankenstein-like constructions embody imagined embryos created in laboratory during her five failed cycles of in vitro fertilization.

Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019]
HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019] Used baby clothes, thread, dissection pins
Unnamed
2015
Used baby clothes, thread, dissection pins

Fertility Fest @ ESHRE, Messe Wien, Vienna, June 24-26, 2019
HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019] Used baby clothes, thread, dissection pins
Unnamed
2015
Used baby clothes, thread, dissection pins

Fertility Fest @ ESHRE, Messe Wien, Vienna, June 24-26, 2019

HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019]


[Partial exhibition view] Fertility Fest @ ESHRE, Messe Wien, Vienna, June 24-26, 2019
HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019] Detail
Unnamed
2015
Detail

HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019] Detail
Unnamed
2015
Detail
HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019] Detail
Unnamed
2015
Detail

HEIDI BARKUN Unnamed [Fertility Fest, June 24 - 26, 2019] Detail
Unnamed
2015
Detail