Where We Were Wo(r)n

By Alka Dass, thato makatu and Zenaéca Singh

Front Gallery: 18.06.26 - 30.07.26 

Where We Were Wo(r)n explores memory, erosion, and inherited histories through found objects and craft processes. 

— Playing on “worn” and “won” (past-tense verb for achieving victory).

— Echoes the quiet fatigue of lineage, where displacement, domestic labor, and generational endurance are held in the seams of cloth and kin.

Using the familiar in the domestic, the work reflects on the unnoticed spaces where loss accumulates: 

The lining of a pocket, a lost lunchbox, the fraying edge of a seam, the places we once belonged to but were worn from us.

These fragile materials become witnesses to the soft erasures of time, archiving stories that fall outside official histories.

This body of work asks: 

What do we inherit that no longer holds us? 

What remains in the worn spaces of memory, invisible yet felt?

Where We Were Wo(r)n becomes a soft elegy, a stitched reclamation of care, memory, and the ephemeral traces of belonging.