24 Jan Lynn Lu | Amnion

Lynn Lu | Amnion
A Single-Channel Video Installation, 12 minutes
Filipinas Heritage Library
January 27 – February 7, 2026 | 10:00AM – 6:00PM
(The library is closed on Monday, Sunday (Feb 1) from 10 AM – 2 PM, and at 12:00 NN – 1:00 PM)

Amnion considers the connection between all beings and bodies, our reliance on each other and on our collective leakiness for survival. The video thinks through water as a medium that connects all watery bodies, all living creatures to each other, as well as to hydrogeological and meteorological bodies, the significant water loss in menopausal bodies, our human affinity to whales, the only other species that undergoes the climacteric and lives a long post-reproductive life, and the enduring biological enigma that is the menopause.

Layered voices narrate excerpts from the philosophers Astrida Neimanis and Darcey Steinke, probing porous borders between bodies and the environment, between human and cetacean, and persistent fears surrounding menopause.

The film shows the artist and her child entangled in milky fluid, with shots that cross the boundaries between liquid and air and between inside and outside the body. The skin and body contours read as landscapes of contrasting textures of youth and age. And alluding to the momentous occasion of her final eggs being shed, the artist expels egg-like objects from various parts of her body.

For more information on the artist and installation, click HERE.