Kezia Waters
The Body Keeps the Storage (2025)
performance/installation Saturday Feb 1st 9pm

This work draws its title from the 2014 book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, reframing its central premise to explore the intersection of personal, cultural, and generational memory as it exists within the body and physical space. Informed by the artist’s recent diagnosis with HIV, an event that cracked open the vaults of historical and cultural memory tied to Black gay culture in America. In this moment of personal transformation, the artist was transported into an archive in Flux. The body itself becomes a storage unit, an archive in flux, physical storage spaces, and these inner archives are simultaneously sacred, holy and utilitarian. The artist invites viewers to reflect on their own inherited storage units: what do we carry, and how does it shape the spaces we inhabit—internally and externally?