Universal Motherhood is an immersive exhibition exploring pregnancy, birth, and maternal care across global contexts.
Opening on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, the exhibition follows five women from different parts of the world as they navigate the final stages of pregnancy, labour, and childbirth—revealing both the intimacy of individual experience and the wider political realities of access to safe healthcare.
Combining photography, video, soundscape, and immersive installation, the project brings together work by internationally recognised photographers including Carlota Guerrero, Bieke Depoorter, Diana Markosian, Dana Popa and Siân Davey. Through these multi-sensory environments, audiences are invited into deeply personal narratives of motherhood, shaped by cultural, social, and medical conditions.
Designed as an experiential journey, the exhibition moves between intimate audio encounters and large-scale immersive environments including a light installation informed by global data on infant mortality. This combination of storytelling and research foregrounds the urgent need for equitable access to maternal healthcare worldwide.
The exhibition was created to highlight why all women should have access to essential healthcare and that no mother should have to give birth and no baby be born without the support of a skilled health worker.
Designed by Anagram for Save The Children and GSK.
The exhibition was opened in March 2018 in Noho Studios, Fitzrovia, London.
