Artist Talk// "Haylee Anne: Bone Deep"

Join ACP for the artist talk for Haylee Anne: Bone Deep, a conversation between Haylee Anne and two of her collaborators, Imani Austin-Edwards and Savannah O'Leary.

"Fatigue announces itself in the body as a collapse of coherence. Vision blurs, language loosens, and limbs and thoughts feel weighted. There is a sensation of sinking inward, a specific erasure of strength that arrives without warning. These episodes are not exceptional; they are part of the habitual, daily negotiations between the body and chronic illness and autoimmune diseases. Haylee Anne and her collaborators are working within this incoherent body: one shaped by decades of fluctuating exhaustion, medical rituals, and the precarity of illness. 

In a system that demands constant productivity while offering limited support, surrendering to fatigue risks erasure. Bone Deep pulls fatigue out of intangibility and places it into material. Through abstracted photographic methods, exhaustion is rendered as an embodied record of survival."

In the Reading Room, ACP’s Summer 2026 Bookshelf Resident, The Stacks Bookstore, Chatham County's only accessible and ADA-compliant bookstore centered around prioritizing disabled and underrepresented authors, presents an installation of over 40 titles focused on personal, social and historical experiences and perspectives on living with disability.

The artist talk is free and open to the public. 

About Imani Austin-Edwards//

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About Savannah O'Leary//

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