Vladislav Ossso Lobashev's 'TERM CONTRACT' Explores Professionalized Motherhood

Vladislav Ossso Lobashev, an artist based in Barcelona, presents 'TERM CONTRACT', a project that imagines a near future shaped by demographic crisis and the institutional reorganization of care. The work centers on Yuki, a 23-year-old Japanese woman for whom a professional motherhood contract becomes her first major adult decision. Lobashev's practice intersects AI, phygital installations, digital performance, and experimental video. The piece avoids typical sci-fi tropes, using darkness and isolation to focus on the protagonist. The artist draws on kyūdō, the Japanese art of archery, as an ethical metaphor for discipline and process over outcome. The work is compared to Patricia Piccinini's 'The Young Family' (2002) and Jonathan Glazer's film 'Under the Skin'. Lobashev's project is featured in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9 'ART: it is argument', alongside narrative voice and augmented reality video. The text was reviewed using AI tools.