Heard is an immersive experience, where I present a series of assemblages that gather the echoes of women’s voices across generations, weaving memory, silence, and revelation into a visual and aural homage to a shared history.
Using found photographs initially from my family, fragments of text, and tactile materials imbued with a sense of time and touch, I explore how women’s stories, often hidden, dismissed, or erased, linger in the margins, waiting to be acknowledged. These layered compositions speak in whispers and ruptures, suggesting that what is not said can still resonate, that the act of listening can be revolutionary. The work is both elegy and invocation, calling forth the voices of mothers, daughters, ancestors, and strangers, allowing their presence to inhabit the gallery space with quiet insistence.
Heard is an intimate reckoning with the transmission of a certain female experience — emotional, political, and poetic. These don’t represent all women’s stories, but originate with my desire to understand the women from my family, in an effort to interrogate my own personal history. In reassembling these lives from scattered ephemera in my assemblages, I don’t just remember them; I give them space to speak. The exhibition asks: What have we inherited from the women before us, and how do we carry their stories forward?
Through use of repetition, distortion, and resonance, my goal is to create an atmosphere where the unseen becomes visible and the unheard find a voice. In this way, Heard is both an offering and a reclamation, where silence is not absence, but presence waiting to be recognized.
