aus•cul•ta•tion, 2025

Auscultation is redefining the experience of listening to the inside of the body.  It moves away from the noise of our visually identified world, guiding us into a space of silence, not quietness, but deep listening. In this space, silence allows us to endure and engage with the unknowns within our bodies. To make sense of what is nonsensical.

In my first solo final MFA exhibition, Auscultation, I am attempting to find my insides through sound, installation, and textiles. I am exploring the invisible world within my body, and I hope to extend that exploration outward, inviting the participants to do the same. What is the inside of the body, the viscera, blood, tumors, muscles, when we are no longer focused on identifying it, but rather engaging with its unseen essence?  How does the internal myth of our physical depths shift when we stop relying on MRIs and CT scans to translate them into a visual language? What role do genetics play in our sonic memory? When we listen, how do the sounds of our inner world reveal to us our own sonic portrait?

Through these sounds and textures, I implore the viewer to interact with the work, not from the outside in, but from the inside out. Listen from your viscera, from your interstitium, from your biological language. Touch from not just your fingers, but with your whole body. This exhibition is about letting go of what we think we know and reconsidering how we receive information.