Zoë Buckman (b. 1985, London; lives in New York) is a British Jewish multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans time-based media, textile embroidery, sculpture, and more. Across media, her work engages sustained themes of intersectional feminism, mortality, and equality.
Show Me Your Bruises, Then documents three women—Buckman herself, Cush Jumbo, and Sienna Miller—reciting Buckman’s free-flowing poem of the same name. The video work recounts experiences of domestic violence, examining the socially imposed shame and stigma surrounding survivors. In retelling these accounts, the work further considers how multigenerational experiences of mistreatment or abuse can produce cyclical patterns that frequently go unnoticed or are dismissed.
This exhibition marks the first time the poem is presented in its entirety. The three-channel installation is accompanied by an antique textile artwork embroidered with an excerpt from the poem. Together, Show Me Your Bruises, Then illustrates how Buckman’s practice brings attention to the experiences of survivors and explores the power of retelling to dismantle societal stigmas surrounding domestic violence.
