She Carries the World exhibition— Dupont Underground

In March, we participated in She Carries the World at Dupont Underground in Washington, DC, a dual exhibition where The Threads of Migration was presented together with Reverberations by Sylvana Burns. Sylvana Burns is a London-based Mexican visual artist whose work explores the female body, its representation, and sexuality as a form of lived experience. The exhibition brought the two projects into dialogue through different approaches to the female experience, memory, and the physical traces of history.

The exhibition took place at Dupont Underground, an experimental cultural space in Washington, DC, located in a former underground transit station beneath Dupont Circle. Eleven skirts were shown alongside moodboards documenting the design process and the women’s stories behind each piece.

At the opening, we were joined by participants of the project — Gelila Mekonnen (Ethiopia), Sureyya Kashgary (East Turkestan), Tursunay Ziyawudun (East Turkestan), and Sughra Hussainy (Afghanistan) — who shared their experiences of migration, their journeys to the UK, and their ongoing work in the DMV area supporting immigrant communities.