What has been stored

What Has Been Stored draws on sonic memories from infancy—lullabies, rocking rhythms, humming, and early vocal and physical experiences—as forms of embodied knowledge stored in the body before language. These forms of soothing inhabit thresholds between inside and outside, wakefulness and sleep, the uncanny and the peaceful. They emerge as carriers of affection and of knowledge transmitted across generations, while also holding vulnerability and unease. Alongside tenderness, they can carry threats, social tensions, loss, desire, and memories of the worlds into which children are born.

Rooted in experiences of motherhood and migration, the project brings these early sounds into dialogue with the adult self, creating a performative space for listening where care becomes both an intimate experience and a political practice. Through this encounter, the work opens questions around transmission and the invisible forms of labour that sustain individual and collective life, while making space for the absences, memories, and lives that precede and follow us.