Exhibitions
But Where Are You From, From? · May 1 – May 31, 2026
Developed within the conceptual framework of the exhibition, But Where Are You From, From?, this work extends Meshel’s exploration of identity, belonging, and the structures that shape how individuals relate to one another across borders. Moving beyond fixed notions of nationality, the piece challenges the tendency to reduce identity to geography, instead questioning the systems of division that define who belongs where.
At its core, the work addresses the erosion of trust. Originating from a period in which the artist confronted her own difficulty in trusting herself and others, the piece expands this experience outward, proposing that such fractures are not isolated, but symptomatic of a broader social condition. The breakdown of trust becomes a central axis through which relationships between individuals, communities, and nations are destabilised.
Through this lens, the work resists narratives of blame tied to specific countries or political systems. Instead, it calls attention to a shared responsibility, suggesting that the conditions shaping the world are collectively produced and, therefore, collectively changeable. In doing so, Meshel shifts the focus from external authority toward individual and communal agency.
Rather than advocating for uniformity, the piece gestures toward the possibility of unity grounded in compassion and mutual recognition. It proposes that rebuilding begins not at the level of institutions, but within the fragile space of trust, between people who must choose, repeatedly, whether to remain divided or to reconnect.
The Body Keeps the Score
Soho House Barcelona · February 19 – May 31, 2025
The Body Keeps the Score by Chris White 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.
White’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.
