Raglan-based artist Élisabeth Denis, also known as Ella Doucira, is set to reveal her photo exhibition Cold-blooded dermatographic locutions in Raglan's Wharf Gallery in February, portraying the everlasting scars words can leave on people.
The photos show individual portraits of five women and one man who have hurtful sentences someone said to them in the past written on their bare bodies. This exhibition is meant to encourage viewers to think twice about what they say to others remembering that words can be as sharp as a knife and that they can leave scars.
A "confessional booth" where visitors can write down phrases they wish they never had to hear will be installed as an interactive component to the exhibition. Those written words will be burned after the exhibition, to liberate the visitors from these confidential
incantations.
There will also be a gentle and almost secretive soundtrack hovering over the gallery room with interconnected murmurs of the six models reciting the lines they wrote, reciting what's constantly rambling in their heads, Denis says.