Exhibition : Anatomy of Inheritance

Artists ⎮ Diana Sanchez

This exhibition explores the ways women’s bodies and lives are shaped by exploitation, silence, and inherited violence, while asserting storytelling as an act of resistance and reclamation. Through painting, sculptural objects, and domestic forms, the works trace how the body becomes a site where labor, family history, and social narratives converge.

The bodies represented here appear wounded, fatigued, fragmented, and dissociated. This condition is not only individual but historical. Since the Industrial Revolution, women’s bodies have been increasingly exploited within systems of labor and within the family itself, pushed toward hyper-productivity and obedience. Personal experience intertwines with this broader history, revealing how power, manipulation, and violence can operate through intimate and paternal figures as much as through economic structures.

The home emerges as a central space in this narrative: a site of intimacy and care, but also of concealment. Houses guard family secrets, and those silences reverberate through bodies, transmitted across generations. Furniture made of fragile materials becomes a metaphor for what is hidden—like dirty laundry stored away—while the body itself appears as a container for untold stories. As family histories surface, fragmented and partial, it becomes clear that each woman carries not only her own experiences but also those of her female ancestors.

At its core, the exhibition challenges dominant narratives about womanhood. Woman has long been positioned as the “other”: a category defined through absence, deviation, or lack, measured against man as the universal subject. From this positioning arise binaries such as the good woman and the bad woman—labels that reward submission, silence, and ownership, and punish autonomy and desire. To tell stories from a woman’s own perspective is therefore to disrupt these frameworks and propose an alternative way of knowing.

By narrating embodied experience, family memory, and inherited trauma, the works reclaim voice and agency. They seek not only to expose contradictions and violences but also to articulate what it means to inhabit a female body, to relate to other women, and to reclaim meaning from a condition historically defined by others. Storytelling here becomes a political and intimate gesture: a way to break silences, to resist exploitation, and to imagine new forms of belonging and continuity.

Exhibition Date ⎮ February 5-26, 2026

Venue ⎮ 6060 Arts Space (Black Building)

Opening Hours ⎮ 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Closed on Sundays)

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