Through embodied experience, this performance explores the archetypal figure of the Triple Goddess, shared across many mythologies. She represents the Maiden (pubescent girl), the Mother (fertile years) and the Crone (post-menopausal). While maidens and mothers are often celebrated, crones are frequently feared and rendered invisible. Yet in some societies, these elders are venerated for their enduring authority as healers, midwives and wise women.

In the original performance of Maiden, Mother, Crone, the artist, her mother and her daughter offered themselves as ‘human books’, inviting participants to sit one-to-one as ‘readers’ and ask questions about their respective life stages. For the Philippine edition, Lu expands this living archive by inviting a new constellation of ‘human books’: four female crones and two pubescent girls. Together, they form The Human Library—a multigenerational gathering that foregrounds continuity and difference, honoring the full spectrum of female experience, memory, and presence.

Lynn Lu is a visual artist whose research-led practice emerges from her interests in context and site specificity, participation and collaboration, and the poetics of absurdity. Her current research investigates the figure of the Crone and female aging to subvert and deepen the ways we collectively understand and experience menopause. She is also learning pole dance to repurpose a craft historically designed for male titillation, for strength-training and acrobatics to combat menopausal ailments like osteoporosis, heart disease, and brain fog, and to explore feminine resilience and sensuality in post-reproductive life. Recent showcase venues include Whitechapel Gallery, Brent Biennale, National Gallery Singapore, SFMOMA, Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Palais de Tokyo, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Singapore Art Museum. With a PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia, Lynn is a Visiting Artist at London College of Communication, an Associate Lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore, and an Associate Artist at performance space.