Through painting, drawing, installation, text, sculpture, and moving image, the exhibition examined the relationship between Black women and the spaces they move through—from the street, to the home, to the natural world. The work considered how experiences of gendered violence, racialized vulnerability, care, memory, and freedom shape our understanding of safety.
Rather than offering a singular answer, Finding Soft Ground invited visitors to reflect on the places where refuge is found, created, and imagined. During the exhibition's run, many visitors described the galleries themselves as spaces of comfort, contemplation, and restoration, extending the exhibition's central question beyond representation and into lived experience.
