Follow the yellow trail – an embedded path of violence collective trauma has left within our urban landscape.

The Yellow Mulberry Tree was a site-specific, pop-up exhibition centred around interdisciplinary artist Molly Grad’s practice exploring intergenerational trauma and the binds that prevent society from breaking away from the binary, the violent, and the invisible. The core of the artist’s research and practice is a transformational study of how the individual becomes the collective and approaches trauma to generate gateways, awareness, and visibility – breaking free from the unspeakable and making visible what cannot be seen nor said to broach a process of collective healing.

With newly produced pivotal works around the exhibition space, Grad aimed to investigate circles of violence that have left traces within us and in the landscape around us – in the post-industrial urban realm. The narratively interlinked works were all under the umbrella of the five circles embedded in Grad’s writing practice.

Photo Credit: Sam Nightingale & Jacob Sirkin