The Story: In A Child’s Place

Storyboard and statement for Fall/Winter 2025 group exhibition at Purple Window Gallery In A Child’s Place.

“Stay in a child’s place.” A command. A warning. A boundary drawn and redrawn across time.

This exhibition turns toward the blurred lines of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in an exploration of what is lost to, and inevitably rewritten by, time.

What textures, colors, and emotions do we pour into our re-memory to fill the gaps left behind?

Our first day of school, our first crush, moving across the neighborhood/city/country, learning what sex is, feeling what sex is, and knowing what sex isn’t—all are hinge moments in our collective memory of “growing up.”

Through sculpture, painting, and audiovisual installation, the featured artists frame the organic process of revising history as an embodied experience of complex and increasingly fragile memory work—tracing how personal histories are drafted, redacted, and returned to over time.

In A Child’s Place stands as a retrospective—placing emphasis on the reinterpretation of childhood and adolescence, informed by the distortions of trauma, grief, and time. It invites artists and viewers alike to consider and reconsider the malleability of memory and the enduring presence of the past.

“Art Therapy” (2025)
Digitally rendered children’s sketch

As seen in In A Child’s Place
by Samiah Fulcher