Love Shit: Verena Blok's unflinching exploration of autonomy and reproduction at Foam

Foam presents Love Shit, the first solo exhibition by the Dutch-Polish artist Verena Blok. In this exhibition, Blok explores the complexity of reproduction and everything that comes with it: pregnancy, abortion, childhood, care, intimacy, health, and reproductive rights. At a time when women’s rights, including access to safe abortion, are under growing pressure worldwide, Love Shit emphasises the importance of nuance, complexity, and a multiplicity of voices. Love Shit emerged from Blok’s simultaneous experiences of her own pregnancy and her work at a Dutch abortion clinic. Her experiences in the clinic made a profound impression and raised urgent questions about freedom of choice and autonomy over the female body. Over a period of two and a half years, Blok photographed women at different stages of pregnancy, children, and couples in several