The phrase speaking through masks feels like a call to speak the unspeakable—things we have been told not to say—that are now happening on a huge scale. The global pandemic, uprising, and solidarity reinforces for me the importance of speaking from my own life experience and not co-opting experience that is not mine. Through making work in my house in a more compact way during quarantine, this video is built around one historical artifact from the pharmaceutical industrial complex, four photos, and my handwriting. It is a reckoning with the way certain memories can return unbidden, and how one historical/personal moment can reanimate an earlier moment in unexpected ways. When everyday life splits open, the past seeps in to fill in the cracks.

— Liz Roberts