CLINT ENNS - Man and Woman Pregnant

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – Man and Woman Pregnant

A man and a woman stand facing each other, both with pregnant bellies. Their posture is serious, almost ritualistic, as if a new genesis were being negotiated. The scene appears tranquil, yet it pulses with questions: What does reproduction mean in a time when technologies are beginning to blur biological boundaries?

Male pregnancy, once a utopia or a grotesque idea, has now become medically conceivable—a sign of the profound upheaval our understanding of the body, identity, and future is undergoing. Enns links this to a second level: the collective obsession with prolonging life, outsmarting it with technology, and cheating death.

Thus, the intimate scene appears as a mirror of global hubris: the dream of control over life itself, stilled in the gaze of two bodies that embody an impossible, but perhaps soon possible, image.