Under Four Eyes
November 1-January 31, 2026
Under Four Eyes
Torpedo Factory Art Center
Post-Graduate Residency
Alexandria, VA
What can the body hold that the archive cannot?
Under Four Eyes is a decentralized, embodied counter-archive project that gathers oral histories, field recordings, and rituals centered on intergenerational knowledge exchange.
Embodied that insists on movement and shape —gesture, ritual, and the struggle to remember as legible and valid modes of preservation.
The project takes its name from a German idiom—“unter vier augen”—which refers to private, intimate exchange between two people. Rooted in grassroots organizing methodologies, I’m interested in the archive that uses one-on-one conversation as both an artistic form and survival strategy.
And within this form I’ve been asking: What does it mean to pass down knowledge in hushed tones? How do we teach our communities to safeguard artists’ work during crises, outside institutional spaces—through neighbors, friends, and family?
During my time at the Torpedo Factory Post-Grad residency, the studio is transformed to mirror my umma’s tailor shop as I work through another form of soft mending, not with clothes but memory.
Torpedo Factory Art Center
Post-Graduate Residency
Alexandria, VA
What can the body hold that the archive cannot?
Under Four Eyes is a decentralized, embodied counter-archive project that gathers oral histories, field recordings, and rituals centered on intergenerational knowledge exchange.
Embodied that insists on movement and shape —gesture, ritual, and the struggle to remember as legible and valid modes of preservation.
The project takes its name from a German idiom—“unter vier augen”—which refers to private, intimate exchange between two people. Rooted in grassroots organizing methodologies, I’m interested in the archive that uses one-on-one conversation as both an artistic form and survival strategy.
And within this form I’ve been asking: What does it mean to pass down knowledge in hushed tones? How do we teach our communities to safeguard artists’ work during crises, outside institutional spaces—through neighbors, friends, and family?
During my time at the Torpedo Factory Post-Grad residency, the studio is transformed to mirror my umma’s tailor shop as I work through another form of soft mending, not with clothes but memory.