What Colour Is Your Scream

15 West Central Street

Growing along the margins of well-travelled paths are the unlikely strays of the wayside, foliage surviving despite the odds. They channel a persistence echoed in the long history of women’s voices that refuse to be buried, that rise, insistent, from the margins. Taking these “roadside survivors” home, Apollinaria Broche reimagined the roadsides of Pietrasanta from which they were gathered, and attended to the slow performance of their blooming and fading. Patiently observing this dissolution, these flowers became anthropomorphic portraits of existence. What Colour Is Your Scream is a collection of these portraits. In conversation with the women in her life, Broche asked what colour their scream might take, seeking to visualise the sounds of this existence. With her brother, the sound artist Manus1ck, she gathered these sounds.

Born in Moscow in 1995, now living between Pietrasanta and Paris, Broche has spent many years building a practice around the chimerical and the intimate, sculptural worlds that operate according to their own internal logic. This new body of work feels like a turn toward something more exposed; these portraits have existed before, made privately, given as gifts between friends. The question at hand brings this to the public; Broche asked it of her friends, and What Colour Is Your Scream asks it now of whoever walks through the door.