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I Believe Sascha Riley considers the fragile relationship between testimony, memory, and the act of believing. The collage incorporates fragments of trafficking survivor Sascha Riley’s recorded testimony, published by Lisa Noelle Voldeng in Don’t Worry Boys Are Hard to Find. Torn apart and reassembled, the text forms a fractured field that both reveals and obscures, resisting the certainty often expected of documentary evidence. My own body appears alongside these fragments—not as a representation of Riley’s experience, but as a site of witnessing, acknowledging that testimony can exceed the individual from whom it originates. Another person’s account of profound violence can reverberate through our own bodies and memories, reminding us that testimony continues to live beyond the voice that first speaks it. Through the act of cutting, layering, and reconstructing the text, the work reflects on the difficulty of holding traumatic narratives and the ways experiences of violence often exceed language itself.

From Suzanne Gainer

  1. Pressure by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Pressure

    Archival Pigment Print on Awagami Unuru

    12 x 12 x 1.5 in (30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm)

    $500

  2. Escape by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Escape

    Mixed Media

    6 x 6 x 1.5 in (15.24 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)

    $350

  3. Heresy by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Heresy

    Mixed Media

    6 x 6 x 1.5 in (15.24 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)

    $350

  4. Index by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Index

    Mixed Media

    12 x 12 x 1.5 in (30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm)

    $500

  5. Espero by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Espero

    Archival Pigment Print on Awagami Unuru

    6 x 6 x 1.5 in (15.24 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)

    $350

  6. Fluid by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Fluid

    Mixed Media

    12 x 12 x 1.5 in (30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm)

    $500

  7. Optimism by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Optimism

    Photo Print on Aluminum Backing

    7.6 x 14 x 0.5 in (19.3 x 35.56 x 1.27 cm)

    $400

  8. Dissociation by Suzanne Gainer, Image 1.

    Dissociation

    Archival Pigment Print on Canson, mounted on aluminum. Box frame.

    18 x 12 x 1.5 in (45.72 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm)

    $800