Silenced

The Rape of Persephone — one of the most visceral and enduring myths in the Western canon, a story of abduction and violation rendered repeatedly in marble with breathtaking technical beauty. Here three details from that sculpture are held within a single antique Roman frame, stacked vertically in their individual oval compartments, Persephone's expression caught again and again at different moments of the same story.
The title doesn't need to explain itself. This statue has circulated for centuries as a masterpiece, the artistry celebrated while the subject's experience remains peripheral to the conversation. Silenced asks whose story we've actually been telling — and what it means that we keep finding it beautiful.