When life forces you to face yourself, what awaits in the mirror is a gift: vulnerability.

(Alicia Keys)

There is a profound strength in being seen – not as a fixed image or consumable form, but as a constellation of emotional histories, sensual memories, ancestral echoes, and lived complexities. And yet, there is also a power in withholding, in turning the gaze inward, in choosing opacity over legibility, mystery over performance. To be seen fully, and to sometimes refuse that seeing, is an act of sovereignty.

Her gaze: a woman’s truth emerges from this duality – a curatorial meditation on the multifaceted truths that Black women carry: not just in what they endure, but in how they move through the world with grace, with softness, and with an embodied understanding that beauty can be both balm and assertion.

Timed to coincide with Women’s Month, the exhibition assembles eight artists – Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Rewa, Tonia Nneji, Iyunola Sanyaolu, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro, Chidinma Nnoli, and Praise Sanni-Adeniyi – whose work collectively shifts the gaze from dominance to intimacy, from spectacle to interiority. Each practice proposes a different relationship to visibility – some assertive, others elusive; some ornamental, others devotional. What binds them is an insistence that a woman’s truth is not something to be extracted, but something to be honored – often in its quietest, most radiant forms.