The Memory Remains is an exhibition rooted in the themes of care, emotional inheritance and remembrance. It tells a story of how bonds are sustained across generations – through various acts of gesture and labor. Artists Aniela Kurkiewicz and Evelyn Everaerts approach the intersection of the domestic and the intimate. On this common ground, their works emerge as a living archive: embodied and vulnerable. Here, storytelling stands as a tool to counter erasure and to reform connection. Each work speaks to the dual nature of intimacy: its capacity to nurture and to confine, to heal and to exhaust. The show explores the tension between visibility and absence. It invites the viewer to reflect upon how we acquire patterns of endurance as well as vulnerability, and how this shapes our understanding of self as well as others. Through distinct yet converging practices, Kurkiewicz and Everaerts map out the landscape of kinship: the unseen structures that sustain us, and the painful silences that accompany them.
