Motherhood on Ice

Cryogenics, art and keeping things human

Xin Liu, The Mothership (2023). Courtesy of the artist and Make Room Los Angeles. Photo: Daniel Greer.

This week I’ve been intrigued by a story that has been in the UK headlines. It’s about the somewhat unscrupulous and highly profitable commercial world of human egg freezing. Now stick with me here, I will get to the art eventually.

Apparently women who are paying to prolong their ‘reproductive window’ by having their eggs extracted and…