House of D: Voices out the Window,

Stories on the Ground

House of D: Voices out the Window, Stories on the Ground is an exhibition capitalizing on the overlap between art and history. The show's conception stems from conversations between artist and educator Lauren Sandler and interdisciplinary movement artist and scholar Alycia Bright Holland around the book, The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan. With a shared interest in using art to uncover obfuscated histories, Sandler and Bright Holland establish an exhibition framework where artists weave personal narratives and historical archives together. Expanding the curatorial connection to the Women’s House of Detention (House of D) beyond the confinement of Greenwich Village, the prison becomes an archaeological site that extends across geography and into the crooks of our bodies. Each exhibiting artist embodies these sentiments, inviting the public to peer into their vulnerable processing and explore hidden histories that are buried in all of us.

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