On View
Lifeworld - Alumni Curatorial Project #12
Dec 13 – Feb 8, 2026
The body carries memory- personal, cultural, and historical- even when these memories remain unspoken. In this exhibition, the body is both vessel and archive. A site where time, experience, and emotion settle, subtly marking the physical form. The works gathered here explore these layers through diverse media, from film, painting and ceramics to textile, sculpture, and tactile materials, each translating memory into material presence. The body emerges not only as a subject but as a witness, a participant, and a medium through which stories of migration, belonging, transformation, and renewal unfold.
The exhibition is structured around three overlapping conceptual threads. First, the body as a site of personal and migratory memory: here, works reveal how displacement and the transitions that shape one’s life alter our relationship with our own bodies, marking them with physical, emotional, and symbolic traces. Second, the body as tactile and experiential material: some artists engage process, movement, and gesture as ways of accessing embodied memory, where presence and touch become inseparable. Third, the body as a field of cultural and political meaning: bodies are sites of resistance, subversion, and social commentary, where personal histories intersect with broader cultural and gendered structures. Across all three threads, the works invite viewers to encounter the body both visually and physically, creating a space where embodied memory resonates.
The exhibition’s visual language emphasizes materiality, process, and tactility, where surfaces, textures, and gestures evoke the presence of lived experience. From intimate acts of care and love to encounters with violence, absence, and displacement, each work captures how the body retains, expresses, and communicates memory. Visitors navigate a space where the body, whether present, absent, or symbolically represented, mediates perception, emotion, and reflection. By bringing together diverse approaches to embodiment, the exhibition creates a nuanced and layered portrait of the body as a site of memory, resilience, and ongoing negotiation with culture, politics, and history.
-Hadis Karimi, 2025
