The Strike and Fragments, Women & Their Work, 2024. Two-part installation. Part 1 (The Strike): Drywall, cardboard, mylar, found objects, broken bricks, debris, found insulation with brick wallpaper. 9 × 1.5 × 8 ft. Part 2 (Fragments): Two-channel video installation. One pair of headphones. Digitized performance of the opening monologue of Henrietta Iscariot from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Accompanying song: “Just (After Song of Songs)” by David Lang. One channel plays isolated subtitles, black and white. 4:22 minutes run time.

Presented as part of the "Bending Light" exhibition at Women & Their Work, this two-part installation aimed to visually capture the ongoing crises worldwide.

The Strike presents a stark and unsettling vision, simulating an unexploded missile having breached the domestic sanctuary of a home. Through this jarring visual metaphor, the work aims to capture the pervasive and unresolved tensions of ongoing global crises. The unexploded ordnance, frozen in a moment of potential devastation, serves as a potent symbol of the ever-present threat and precariousness that defines our contemporary world. By placing this object of conflict within the intimate context of a home, the installation seeks to personalize the abstract notion of global crisis, prompting viewers to confront the potential for external turmoil to penetrate even the most private spaces.

Fragments is a digitized performance piece offering a poignant exploration of grief and loss, aiming to illuminate the impact of generational trauma on innocent lives. In the gallery, audiences could choose their level of engagement, opting to experience the performance in its entirety with music (David Lang's "Just (After Song of Songs)"), subtitles, and the monologue from Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, or to isolate specific elements. This intentional design allowed for self-censorship, mirroring the ways in which individuals often navigate difficult and sensitive topics, choosing to engage with raw human expression or focus solely on the textual narrative.

See full performance overview here.

Curated by Taylor Davis.