In Her Place 

Nashville Artists in the Twenty - First Century 

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Group Exhibition 

The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN

February 1 - April 26, 2026

Photo: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

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Presented as part of In Her Place, an exhibition at the Frist Art Museum highlighting the contributions of women artists in Nashville, this installation brings together three bodies of work that consider land, memory, and the body as sites of encounter.

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Raheleh Filsoofi is a multimedia artist working across clay, sound, performance, and dust. These works reflect how she senses the American South through both solitude and collective presence, and how place becomes inclusive through lived experience.

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A Transient’s Paradox is a suspended multimedia installation of 24 ceramic vessels made from clay collected across 16 states in the United States. Each vessel carries sound shaped by the ambient landscapes of the American South. The composition, created in collaboration with Reza Filsoofi, draws from Iranian musical traditions and forms a shifting sonic field of memory and movement.

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The dust paintings are created from the finest particles of clay. Developed through a solitary process, they draw from early forms of inscription while remaining unstable, allowing language to appear and disappear rather than remain fixed.

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Imagined Boundaries: Collective Chorus, created for this exhibition, is an homage to Nashville as Music City. Bringing together 45 musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds, the work presents silent portraits that center presence and reflect a collective formation of place.

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Together, these works trace different relationships to place, both intimate and shared, shaped through solitude and collective encounter.