Matrilineal
mat·ri·lin·e·al
/ˌmatrəˈlinēəl, ˌmātrəˈlinēəl/
adjective: of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.
“Matrilineal” is a textile-based new media installation that traces the threads of generational trauma and healing, migration, and maternal memory through the living metaphor of a quilt. Centering the stories of the women in the artist’s family (specifically the mother’s side), the piece reflects on how histories both spoken and unspoken are carried across oceans, folded into domestic routines, and passed down through gesture, silence, and care.
By merging a craft tradition like quilting, which has a history of being a domestic, women’s practice, with contemporary digital media in the form of projections and digital animations, “Matrilineal” positions the quilt as a site of repair and duality, reflecting on the contradictions that form between cultural inheritances and digital and physical forms of history-keeping. It asks what we inherit, what we choose to mend, and what fragments of ourselves we pass forward.
This project was shown at the 2025 ITP/IMA Winter Show in Brooklyn, New York.