Agonias—what we can't speak of

Agonias—what we can’t speak of, 2025–ongoing
Installation (digital and intaglio prints, custom shelves, personal archives and artifacts), 48x84 in

Imprint, 2024-2025
Variable edition, intaglio (drypoint, aquatint, hard and soft ground etching), 16x13 in

My recent installation, Agonias—what we can’t speak of —is a word that Azorean-Portuguese women, mostly, use among themselves to describe a culturally embedded form of anxiety shaped by migration, labor, and silence. In this body of work, I use my prints, shelves, and artifacts to interrogate a larger, concurrent context of anxiety about belonging and nationalist narratives.

Photography by Aghigh Afkhami, MFA Thesis Exhibit, MassArtxSOWA Gallery