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You, Me and Them: a body that I used to know

A Solo Exhibition by Saviya Lopes

ft. Intervention by Reem Masri

The body remembers. It carries within it the sediments of care, resilience, grief, and joy; traces that outlive the fragility of flesh. In A Body That I Used to Know, the body emerges as a vessel of intergenerational knowledge, a living archive that has witnessed the rise and fall of worlds, the making and unmaking of homes, and the quiet yet unrelenting persistence of everyday survival.

This exhibition begins from the personal and unfolds into the public, revealing how memory, labour, and resistance are inscribed into the body. The paintings chart this shift through a series of reframings: quilting once held as an act of self-care becomes a spectacle for the gaze; grief, once intimate, now registers as political; kitchen spaces transform from sites of gathering to reminders of invisible labour; a womb once named for life becomes a contested ground for law. Grandmothers’ hands, remembered as soft carriers of care, extend here into an archive of touch, testimony, and endurance.

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