Femia (meaning: girl/language); “I wanted to establish a relationship to scale and places small in the significant category, fragments of moments, ones where emotive voices matter . . . subject terrain of voice particularly women voices” Often I feel voiceless . . . in the not so distant past, girls were often taught to make their voices small until there was very little of their spoken word on earth. However, the voices of women have always found a mutinous divergent path to cut through history, a grand swell of voices, places of power, strength and resistance. Outside is loud, BIG & boisterous. Where might the quiet, small and subtle live?

 

Femia establishes a relation to scale and places 'small' in the significant category, fragments of moments, one where emotive voices matter. The places we occupy are not neutral. Community spaces are remade, unmade, constructed and wondered about. The playful can have serious intent. Since 2016 Wright has created work around a myth, a book titled ‘When Women Were Birds’ (by Terry Tempest Williams) became her ‘spark’ book, one that set alight imaginative thought beside the subject terrain of voice. What does it mean to have a voice? Using animation, AR, collage, printmaking, and installation Wright sets about discovering the subtly visual language around that question, not to answer, but rather converse, in the corners of emotive playful expression. Drawing on the spatial aspect of thought, essential to identity, where custodians of varied voices live in unfixed realities, a kind-of subterfuge of urban fragments, Femia is a projected installation, is where this conversation of voice and image animations live.