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View of the publication “Labor Lab,” 2026

View of the publication “Labor Lab,” 2026
Photo: Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld

Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld – Labor Lab

Book Launch

View of the publication “Labor Lab,” 2026
Photo: Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld

Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld – Labor Lab

Book Launch

Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld presents Labor Lab, her latest publication. Released following the exhibition project of the same name, shown in autumn 2024 at the project space of the Schering Stiftung, the book continues the artistic, scientific, and political questions initiated by the exhibition.

The book explores the human body—from hormonal and photographic perspectives—as both a political instrument and a site of knowledge production. The volume includes four essays by contributors who took part in the interdisciplinary discussions that preceded and accompanied the 2024 exhibition.

Labor Lab is a photo chemical series in which liquid hormonal substances are applied directly to exposed photographic negatives, triggering chemical reactions within the photo emulsion that are later developed into large-format prints in the darkroom. Through this photochemical “hack,” the series produces portraits of hormones—the substances that underpin connection, reproduction, sex, gender, sleep, hunger, ageing, growth, contraception, and abortion. The photographs transform these intimate bodily experiences into an aesthetically tangible and accessible form, opening them up to interpretation and debate.

The book was published by Spector Books and designed by Pascal Storz.

About the authors of this volume:

  • Asya Yaghmurian is a curator and editor based in Berlin.
  • Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld is an artist whose work distils, captures, and transforms knowledge.
  • Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics and the author of writings on colour chemistry, animation, screens, and media devices.
  • Margarida Mendes is a researcher, curator, and educator working at the intersection of speculative fiction, sound practices, and environmental education.
  • Jeannie Moser’s work in literary and cultural studies explores the intersections of language, science, society, and politics.
  • Heiko Stoff is a historian of medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre “Sexdiversity.”
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Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld lives and works in Berlin and Paris. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kunsthalle Mainz, HKW Berlin, Berghain, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, MAK Wien/Vienna Biennale, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, and Berlinische Galerie. Schönfeld has been awarded POUSH residency Paris, DAAD travel grants to Siberia and Scotland, held a residency at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, USA, and received the FOAM Talents Award of the FOAM photography museum in Amsterdam as well as grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Berlin Senate. In 2020, she was commissioned by New Mexico State University to create a public sculpture.

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Asya Yaghmurian is a curator and writer based in Berlin. Her work focuses on contemporary artistic practices that engage questions of materiality, labour, and systems of visibility, often in relation to gendered and social structures. Her curatorial work includes Portable Homelands at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2017); Crack Up – Crack Down, the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2019); düsseldorf photo+ Biennial for Visual and Sonic Media (2022 and 2024); Herbstsalon 7 at Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin (2025); To Everything, Spurn, Spurn, Spurn at Frieze Cork Street, London(2025); The Event of a Thread. Global Narratives in Textiles: Yerevan at the National Gallery of Armenia, in cooperation with ifa (2026); and Ecological Translation at Goethe-Institut Athens (2026). She has also co-curated LagosPhoto 2020 and developed projects with the African Artists’ Foundation in Lagos (2019-2023) and the Caravane Earth Foundation in Doha (2023-2024). Alongside her curatorial work, Yaghmurian works as an editor of publications and is a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is also a contributing writer to art publications such as Flash Art and ArtReview.

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