sarry about saying you don’t

SOLO EXHIBITION | APRIL 2022


We are constantly constructing archives. Our inscriptions, transactions, and interactions are all diaries. There are records of you across the world: in data centers, in trash dumps, in the memories of the lives you have loved. The records of you are infinite, and almost completely out of your control. Physical, digital, fragile. Accurate, yet abstracted. Even summed together, all are still never quite a complete representation.

sarry about saying you don’t is a diary of multiple mediums. Raya Ward welcomes us in to an intimate space constructed of her own archives — ones made of her, ones she has collected, and others she has produced. Through mixed media collage and installation, Raya weaves together a range of record types and sources in a simultaneous rejection of ‘privacy’ and calculated presentation of truth.

REVIEW

Archive as Art, Community as Practice: a review of ‘sarry about saying you don’t’

“Raya Ward debuts a captivating visual language that incisively guides viewers through a sophisticated meditation on the nature of our personal archives — how they are built, how they persist, how well they represent us, and to whom they are legible…” 

Individual Works

place (#1), 2022
installation

 

data ghosts, 2022
generative film (installation view - still)

 

untitled, 2022
collage on canvas: paint, thread, fabric, image transfer, oil on canvas, paper, window frames

 

untitled, 2022
assemblage sculpture: washer door, burnt wood, metal and nails

 

baby dolly, 2022
collage on paper

 

untitled, 2022
acrylic, ink and chalk on unstretched canvas

 

traces & tears, 2021
canvas, wood, thread, pen

 

dear mom, 2021
collage on paper

 

place (#2), 2022
installation

 

place (#3), 2022
installation

 

untitled, 2022
acrylic, ink and chalk on unstretched canvas

 

vanity, 2022
sculpture

 

hand me downs, 2022
wood, clothes

 

copy, 2021
collage on canvas: magazine cuttings, vellum paper, watercolor, marker, tape, thread, eyeglasses frame, key, cloth

 

Babysitting Raya, 2022
pen on stretched tracing paper

 

place (#4), 2022
installation

 

grief garden, 2022
web experience (installation view)

 

untitled, 2022
installation, 8 collages, cigarette box, 2 pinecones

 

dear daddy, 2021
collage on paper

 

untitled, 2022
collage on paper

 

untitled, 2022
collage on paper

 

untitled, 2022
acrylic, ink and chalk on unstretched canvas

 

sarry about saying you don’t, 2022
poster, digital collage