The Body Remembers
The Body Remembers began with a personal experience of grief and my need to understand what happens when grief doesn’t have a clear ending, or when there are things we are unable to fully express. The work looks at how the body holds on to grief and how it can remain stored within us, changing our memory, our sense of ourselves, and the way we move through the world.
The work brings together portraits of people who have had different experiences with grief and a series of deliberately sabotaged Polaroids. The Polaroids are an attempt to imagine what grief might look like inside the body. Once altered, they continue to change over time... their colors shift, their surfaces deteriorate, and even their textures transform. I cannot fully predict what they will eventually become.
For me, this process mirrors the way grief changes with time. It doesn’t simply disappear or become smaller. It takes different forms. Something that once felt sharp can become distant, while something we thought had passed can suddenly return in another shape. The body carries these changes with it.
Alongside the Polaroids, the portraits hold the people who carry their own experiences of grief. Together, the two parts of the work move between what can be seen and what remains beneath the surface; between the person we see from the outside and what the body might be holding within.
The Body Remembers is an attempt to give a physical form to an emotion that is often difficult to put into words yet quietly changes us in ways we cannot always name.
Project was exhibited at Konvent Zero in Spain as part of the Expanded Mediterranean Art Residency 2026.
