In Feminine Fragility, artists Kamila Waleszkiewicz and Iwona Van Niekerk present a profoundly resonant exhibition that invites reflection on violence, remembrance, healing, and feminine resilience. Hosted at the Moores Building Art Space in Fremantle, this collaborative project transforms the gallery into a sanctuary for contemplation and testimony, where art resists, mourns, and remembers.

At the heart of the exhibition is Waleszkiewicz’s large-scale installation of 50 sheer fabric panels, each imprinted with the ghostly outline of a dress. These represent the 50 women killed by intimate partners or family members in Australia in 2024. Floating gently in the gallery space, these transparent textiles evoke absence and memory, becoming vessels of lives lost too soon. They are intimate symbols, life-sized, delicate, and powerful, signifying not just death, but the energy, dreams, and humanity of each woman memorialised.

This exhibition holds to the belief that art as resistance does not require confrontation. It can be a quiet, deliberate refusal to accept the cultural systems that erase women, reduce them to numbers, or dismiss their suffering. In this work, absence becomes a voice, and silence becomes a statement.