Creation begins in silence—
a thread pulled taut,
a breath held in the belly.
Love is written in the stars.
Once a year,
Altair meets Vega
on the bridge of magpies.
They make love.
They breathe life
into the womb
woven by constellations.
Somewhere in between,
life begins.
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Weaving Wombspace invites audiences into a suspended realm—where longing, memory, and myth drift among the stars. Inspired by the ancient East Asian legend of Altair and Vega, celestial lovers separated by the Milky Way and reunited once a year by a bridge of magpies, this intimate exhibition honors love as ritual, and the maternal thread as a vessel of remembrance and regeneration.
In the vaulted studio space, sculptures hang like stars from the 11-foot ceiling—echoing constellations that once whispered stories of forbidden reunion and breath-held desire. Rooted in ecofeminist care, fiber arts, and diasporic myth, the show reimagines the womb as a cosmological site: a space where threads of body, sky, and spirit are woven together in remembrance.
Through suspended bodily forms, bleeding threads, and mythic breath—each becoming an offering,.. tender, aching, but alive. This is a site of collective yearning, a soft place where life is breathed into. A bridge not only between celestial lovers, but between generations, species, and lost motherlands.
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Featured artists, Kyong Boon Oh, Victoria May, and Snežana Saraswati Petrović.
Opening Offering: Sunday, September 28, 2025 | 4–9pm
a poco art archive, Culver City (RSVP for address):
ann@apoco.art
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About the Curator
Ann Shi (she/her) is a Los Angeles–based curator, writer, and founder of a poco art collective—a nomadic curatorial platform rooted in ritual, feminist ecology, and Asian cosmological storytelling. Her practice reimagines the exhibition as a space of mythic care and spiritual repair. Her nomadic practice weaves together diasporic memory, ancient Asian philosophy, and speculative myth into site-responsive curatorial offerings.