Charred Wires explores my grandfather’s life, marked by war wounds, militia violence, mental illness, and psychiatric institutionalization. In 1954, after witnessing a colleague’s death at a transformer substation, he was detained and physically coerced into giving testimony. I learned his story only as an adult, his diagnosis remains concealed behind the euphemism “quiet insanity”. Through photographs, archival materials, and staging, I assemble his absent family album, tracing the gap between a person and the memory of them. Rather than restoring the past as it was, I create a space where silenced experience can be articulated. The project examines how displacement and substitution shape inherited memory, and how art can restore visibility to a life reduced to family silence.

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