Snake Lotus

This immersive exhibition for the Spit It Out Festival 2023 Scotland consisted of sound, movement, and image, illustrating the lived and living experiences of individuals and communities marginalised by class, gender, and race. At its centre is a dance and poetic soundscape film.

The film and accompanying visuals tell a story of trauma, not one of healing or resolution, but of entrapment. It explores the inability to break free from cycles of suffering, portraying a continuous death without the possibility of rebirth. Through movement and sound, it captures the oppressive weight of experiences that are often too distressing to voice.

The broader exhibition creates a multi-sensory environment in which the viewer is immersed in a hostile landscape, a place where the lines between fetishisation and violence are blurred, and where the silencing of trauma functions as a mechanism of social control. This silencing becomes a pacifying tool that disguises, enables, and perpetuates injustice.

This is not a passive viewing experience. It is designed to immerse, confront, and unsettle, drawing attention to how systemic discrimination and violation persist not only in experience or history, but in the textures of everyday life.

Due to the traumatic nature of the film, only an extract is shown here.

The exhibition, either in its entirety or in curated parts, is available for booking.