Transmitter is pleased to present BAD CARE, a site-specific presentation of works across sculpture, installation, and video by Anna Ting Möller
@annatingmoller
The title BAD CARE references the Swedish word for bathtub, "badkar." The word itself stems from the Old English bæð, "an immersing of the body in water, mud, etc.” and the Proto-Indo-European bhē-, meaning "to warm," plus the Germanic suffix -thuz, indicating “act, process, or condition,” as in birth and death. Within the context of the exhibition, this ubiquitous receptacle for washing, purifying, maintaining, and warming the body becomes a site for contemplating caregiving structures, biopolitical categories, reproductive logics, and the continual labor of suturing the self.
Through BAD CARE, Möller posits care as an ambivalent condition with extractive potentiality. As much as care is assumed a moral good, nurturing also produces dependency and is easily weaponized in contemporary life. Its absence or lack can hold dire intergenerational repercussions. Across media, process, and temporalities, the exhibition situates the viewer within an indeterminate encounter with longing, desire, displacement, home, inheritance, latent life, and animacy. Shown together for the first time, the three-channel film "SUN(untitled)" (2026) provides the narrative context and backdrop for the production and genesis of the sculptural work "In Tandem" (2025), the two functioning in a call-and-response within the artist’s larger world-building framework. BAD CARE becomes an ambient container for holding meaning, considering our complex relationships to care beyond the traditional bounds of the sensuous body as we know it.
Please join us for the opening reception May 2nd, 6–8 PM! BAD CARE will be on view May 2nd–May 31st at Transmitter.