ASHIMA YADAVA – FONT YARD
2026-01-05Rooted in the symbolic space of the “front yard,” the exhibition frames domestic thresholds as sites where personal histories, cultural memory, vulnerability, and resilience intersect. Here, the home becomes both a literal and metaphorical landscape—one that reflects love, fear, silence, and survival across diverse communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
At the heart of this body of work is Yadava’s refusal of the traditional, one-sided documentary gaze. Instead, she invites her subjects into the image-making process itself. Families are given black-and-white photographic prints and encouraged to color, mark, or embellish them as they choose. These gestures—thumbprints forming balloons, flowers outlining poetic lines in Tamil or Urdu—transform the photograph into a living, tactile conversation. The resulting images reveal not only how people wish to be seen, but how they understand themselves within broader social and emotional realities.
Exhibition runs through to February 14th, 2026
Chung 24 Gallery
698 Pennsylvania Avenue
San Francisco
CA 94114
