If you could see my thoughts, you would see your faces is a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Shaniqwa Jarvis.

Through photography, textile paintings, and film, Jarvis embarks on a journey to reconnect with her younger self and redefine the concept of home. In her works, memory merges with subtle moments, elevating the banal into the sacred.

While widely known for her portraiture, Jarvis approaches all her subjects—whether people, landscapes, or objects—with the same intimate sensitivity. Her photographs, often framed through the lens of nostalgia and solitude, invite viewers to pause and immerse themselves in fleeting, meditative beauty. Flowers, a recurring motif in her work, symbolize beauty, death, and innocence—marking both the fragility and resilience of memory.

The exhibition guides viewers through a series of photographs and textiles, culminating in a new video work that brings Jarvis’s themes into motion. Combining archival footage from her youth with recent video and artworks, alongside newly recorded audio, the film is an ever-evolving piece that interweaves intimate conversations with her community of academics, artists, and creatives. In a stream-of-consciousness narrative, distinct voices reflect on health, New York City, worth, art, motherhood, and hustling—blurring the boundaries between personal memory and collective experience.

The interplay between still and moving images reinforces Jarvis’s ongoing exploration of how environments shape us and how the past lingers within the present. Walking through the exhibition mirrors the process of memory itself—photographs capture fragments of experience, while the film stitches them together into a fluid, continuous thought. By the time viewers arrive at the moving image, they are already immersed in the artist’s world, where the personal and universal, past and present, solitude and connection all converge.

If you could see my thoughts, you would see your faces is on view for the public at Anthony Gallery at 1360 W. Lake Street from March 15th to April 12th, 2025.