A Mother’s Cosmos: The Expanding Anatomies of Warmeng at Graffik Gallery
Graffik Gallery presents Warmeng, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Yuna Yudan Ding, whose multidisciplinary practice – spanning illustration, collage, sculpture, and 3D animation – offers a profound reconceptualisation of contemporary womanhood. As a mother of a nine-year-old, Yuna approaches the body not as an abstract construction, but as an inhabited, negotiated, and continually reshaped terrain. Her identity as a mother-artist is inseparable from her inquiry: care, fatigue, tenderness, and rupture circulate through the works as both intimate memory and collective condition.
At the centre of Warmeng is a reimagining of female internal organs as fluid symbolic architectures. Through 3D modelling, Yuna renders these organs as trembling constellations – structures carrying the sediment of emotional labour, maternal responsibility, and the soft violences that accompany care. Her organs swell and contract like quiet testaments to the unseen labour that sustains life. In her work, anatomy is transformed from medical diagram to lyrical topography, where vulnerability becomes a mode of knowledge and resistance.
This exhibition positions Warmeng in conversation with Yuna’s earlier explorations – Love to Fish, a fable of emotional self-erasure; identity of yuna, an interrogation of inherited femininity; and Yoyo’s Museum, a return to childhood as the first site of discipline and dreaming. Throughout these chapters, recurrent symbols emerge – fish, apples, cages, organs – forming a personal mythology through which Yuna articulates the shifting boundaries of agency, desire, and identity. Her work attests to the way a woman is formed not once, but repeatedly – through love, through survival, through the responsibilities of motherhood, through the expectations quietly inscribed upon her body.
The exhibition carries profound social resonance. In a cultural moment marked by strained maternity systems, rising maternal mental health burdens, and widespread undervaluation of caregiving, Yuna’s imagery gives form to a reality often spoken about only in abstraction. The pressures placed on women – especially mothers – are not incidental; they are structural. In Warmeng, these forces appear not as slogans but as tremors within the organs themselves, as distortions within the body’s architecture, as emotional sediment deposited over time. The work’s intimacy is inseparable from its politics.
It is within this social context that the exhibition is presented in support of Birth Companions, a charity dedicated to women and babies facing severe disadvantage. The collaboration articulates a shared conviction: maternal wellbeing is a collective responsibility, not a private endurance. By aligning Yuna’s symbolic anatomies with the charity’s advocacy, Graffik Gallery extends the exhibition’s reach beyond representation into real-world support.
Graffik Gallery, with its roots in London’s street art scene and an original Banksy in its courtyard, has long been associated with artistic practices that challenge dominant narratives and foreground the marginalised. Hosting Warmeng continues that lineage. If Banksy critiques the structures of society from its public walls, Yuna critiques them from within the body’s inner chambers – offering a counter-mapping of power that begins at the level of flesh, memory, and care. The gallery’s support signals a recognition that the politics of the body is as urgent as the politics of the street.
In its philosophical depth, poetic sensibility, and socio-political urgency, Warmeng stands as Yuna’s most resonant statement to date. As a mother-artist, she offers not only images but testimonies – an anatomy of becoming that honours the complexity of women’s inner lives while challenging the structures that seek to shape them.
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Yuna Yudan Ding’s Warmeng is at Graffik Gallery, 284 Portobello Rd London W10 5TE, from 3rd to 9th December 2025. For further information visit the gallery’s website here.
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