Weaving Wombspace : Love-Making in the Constellations

A Poco Art collective, Culver City, CA, 2025

Weaving Wombspace : Love-Making in the Constellations

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.

Weaving Wombspace: Love-Making in the Constellations invites audiences into an intimate, living archive of woven breath, suspended bodies, and sacred tenderness. This exhibition gathers artists whose practices engage with weaving, ritual, and ancestral memory — moving between mythic, ecological, and material realms to explore grief, healing, and intergenerational transmission.
Centered around fiber, breath, and care, the exhibition draws inspiration from the ancient East Asian myth of the Altair and Vega, celestial lovers allowed to meet once a year by crossing a bridge of magpies across the Milky Way. In 2025, Qixi —their reunion — falls on August 29, setting the cosmic tone for this exhibition of longing, return, and invisible labor.
Suspended high above, sculptures mimick constellations scattered across the Milky Way — a poetic echo of Vega (the Weaver Girl) and Altair (the Cowherd) separated by the silvery river of stars. These hanging forms become more than art objects: they become stars, gestures of longing mapped in space. Rooted in Han dynasty poetry and celestial lore, the Qixi myth tells of how once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, magpies form a bridge across the heavens so the two lovers may reunite.
At this intimate a poco space, beneath the vaulted height of a domestic loft, the suspended sculptures evoke constellations— star-beings caught mid-gesture. They regenerate an ancient longing: not only weaving for motherhood and birth, but for the mythic intimacy of love-making, the mother’s voice remembered, the child’s form imagined, and tenderness made into structure. Time-specific and site-specific, the ceiling becomes sky. The sculpture becomes memory. The exhibition becomes a bridge — between lovers divided by stars, between generations linked by thread, between myth and flesh. Through tactile materials and slow-making practices, these three artists weave personal and planetary mythologies — reframing the loom and the womb as sites of spiritual gestation.

In this liminal space between myth and flesh, between rupture and restoration.
The hands of mothers gathered here are not merely makers of objects,
but weavers of of erings —
to ancestors lost, to lovers stretched across galaxies,
to the broken places in us that still remember how to hold.
Each thread pulled, each knot bound, each memory buried and reborn
is a ritual of return.
To weave is to remember.

Curatorial Statement by Ann Shi