Whitney Biennial 2026

To create the relief sculptures on view here, Nour Mobarak made casts of her body using resin, a synthetic material, and mycelium, the root-like structure of a fungus. Her series Recto Verso, on view at far right, reduces the body to a form—a vehicle for exploring light, color, and space. In Reproductive Logistics 4, Mobarak uses a cast of her pregnant body as a lens through which the room and bodies within it are mirrored, flipped, and distorted. She conceived the work as a meditation on how factors beyond our control can determine biological reproduction as well as artistic creation.

Broad’s Cast (Montage) comprises recordings Mobarak made by inserting a microphone inside her vaginal canal to listen to the world and her own body before, during, and after her pregnancy. Some of the sounds include phone calls, making music, doctor’s appointments, and also what she calls the “almost industrial sounds” of human life.