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Lisa Costello makes sculptures that pose as museum objects in order to question accepted histories of fertility and femininity and, ultimately, the authority of cultural constructions. The Vesta Incubator is a simulated industrial relic constructed from contemporary domestic objects that have been inuenced by industrial design, such as colanders, castered wheels, and stainless steel tables and lighting fixtures. The work is accompanied by a faux museum label that begins, “Introduced by the Vesta Corporation, the Vesta Incubator was the first of a series of prenatal nurseries marketed for the care-taking of eggs.”