This immersive exploration of care and attention centres on a sticky, slimy and much maligned mollusc – the slug. By monumentalising slug-life, Abi Palmer creates a space of resistance and embraces alternative ways of moving through, communing with, and inhabiting a world where the marginalised fight to survive.
Slime Mother brings together film, text, sculpture, and installation to explore the intersections of sick bodies, viscous textures and fragile ecologies. It invites us into an alternate universe in which slugs are revered – crip, queer, more-than-human beings who re-imagine how we might navigate precarious environments.
Through slime, the politics of space and deeply erotic alien mating rituals, Slime Mother invites us to be more slug-like – to slow down, to merge and connect – embracing the resilient strangeness of this complex gastropod.
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