Exhibitions
The Body Keeps the Score
Soho House Barcelona · February 19 – May 31, 2025
The Body Keeps the Score by Chris Meshel explores the ways trauma imprints itself on the body, shaping memory, identity, and connection. Through layered abstraction, vibrant textiles, and poetic inscriptions, these works embody the weight of experience while opening pathways toward resilience and renewal.
Meshel’s process is ritualistic and intuitive, a dialogue between body, soul, and the subconscious. What emerges is both personal and collective — a translation of cellular memory into form, where figures rise from cloth and color as symbols of inheritance and transformation. Science and symbolism converge, revealing how the body carries the unspoken, and how creation itself becomes a process of release and becoming whole.
Accompanied by live poetry and spoken word, the exhibition extends beyond canvas into performance, tracing a journey of survival, synchronicity, and the enduring possibility of healing.
Restoring Synchrony
Oaxaca, Mexico · 2023
Restoring Synchrony is an exploration of what it means to return to wholeness. In this body of work, Chris White transforms the language of trauma into visual form, painting the stages of rupture and repair with bold color and layered technique.
The works emerge from both personal experience and the broader human condition: how the body carries memory, how the subconscious holds what words cannot, and how healing requires a reweaving of self. Drawing upon insights from The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Chris bridges scientific understanding with lived experience, translating the neurological imprints of trauma into gestures of paint, fabric, and texture.
Restoring Synchrony is not only the story of one journey, but also an invocation — a reminder that the act of becoming whole again is both personal and universal, an ongoing rhythm shared across bodies, histories, and time.
