2023 – 2024
2023 – 2024
Identities are shaped through experiences, which influence and at times even restrict life. Negative experiences express themselves through traumatization, which can manifest itself in the body as posttraumatic stress disorder. Jay Ritchie speaks as an affected person about their own traumas, which are taken up in the artistic process and made visible. At the same time, Ritchie detaches them from their individual focus, instead understanding them as a collective phenomenon that needs to be addressed. Through this particular mode of thematization, Ritchie creates a space in flux that addresses feminist themes powerfully through its vulnerability, exploring topics like shame, guilt, and self-assertion, and thereby describe a political act.