Susan Wides, Voice of Silence: An Installation in ‘T’ Space Gallery
October 22, 2025
Voice of Silence: An Installation, ‘T’ Space Gallery.
A conversation between Susan Wides’s Voice of Silence photographic works with Peter Halley’s wall painting, Steven Holl’s architecture, and the surrounding woodlands. Contact [email protected] for a viewing appointment. This installation is part of our winter campus tours with regular public viewing hours resuming in March 2026.
Esteemed art historian Elizabeth Ferrer notes:
“Susan Wides’s exquisite photographic installation of images in her ‘Voice of Silence’ series, Peter Halley’s abstract mural project in the space, the views of nature, and the dappled sunlight streaming in all make for an immersive viewing experience that we don’t typically associate with photography.”
Voice of Silence unfolds where light, space, body, and the natural world converge. Photographs are made on-site along water, rocks, and trees, in single exposures that use the lens’s focal qualities to shift perception and open questions of being.
Grounded in walking, sensory awareness, temporality, and improvisation, the work engages body, mind, and ecology—countering digital dehumanization with presence. Insights from neuroscience into abstraction’s emotional, imaginative, and spiritual effects animate the practice, inviting viewers into states of attunement and care.
Created along tributaries of the Hudson River, the images draw attention to the perspectives of plants, wind, and water, echoing the flux of lived experience and referencing both Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and poet Robert Kelly’s response to the work in his poem titled Voice of Silence.
Peter Halley created the wall painting for his 2024 installation with Steph Gonzales-Turner. Halley’s wall painting now remains permanently in place as an integral part of the gallery’s architecture.
Susan Wides is an American artist working in photography, video, and installation whose work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, the Haifa Museum of Art, Galerie Urbi et Orbi (FR). Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum; the Norton Museum of Art; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center; the Center for Creative Photography (AZ); the International Center of Photography; and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, among others. Since 2010, Susan has served as the Curator and Director of ‘T’ Space.
