Usha Seejarim: Used inaugurates Southern Guild's New York space with sculptural and wall-based works that foreground the material and affective traces of continual labour. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's writing on use as "a sweaty verb," Seejarim reconfigures domestic objects — primarily wooden clothespins arranged into dense accumulative fields — into structures that make visible the invisible, feminised work of the domestic sphere. Grids give way to deviation; circular forms introduce cyclical temporalities; gestural markings resembling scars and wounds speak to harm embedded not in rupture but in repetition and endurance.
