Sarah Sophia Yanni

Sarah Sophia Yanni; I am most at home falling backwards, 2022; Linen, metal, wood, tape, paper; 58 x 59.5 in.







Sarah Sophia Yanni; I am most at home falling backwards (detail), 2022; Linen, metal, wood, tape, paper; 58 x 59.5 in.







Sarah Sophia Yanni; I am most at home falling backwards
(installation view), 2022; Linen, metal, wood, tape, paper; 58 x 59.5 in.

I AM MOST AT HOME FALLING BACKWARDS

I am most at home falling backwards is a text installation born from deep thinking on home and place undertaken in the last six months of my life. The piece catalogs all the places I have (un)settled during a period of physical and personal destabilization, and also considers the intergenerational experiences of (un)belonging and rupture that preceded me.

This piece aims to counter the map’s limits as a flattened entity, making room for the emotional components of place that are not captured in traditional documentation, evidenced by excerpted journal entries from this time, also on view. I am most at home falling backwards seeks to be intimate with the exhaustive nature of place and memory, and the ways in which chaos and nostalgia continuously co-inhabit spaces alongside us. 

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BIO

Sarah Sophia Yanni is the author of the chapbook ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press) and has been recognized as a finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2020 Poetry Contest, Poetry Online’s 2021 Launch Prize, and the Hayden’s Ferry Review Inaugural Poetry Contest. With Christine Imperial, she co-authored persistence&rupture, a documentary poetry chapbook about post-colonial friendships, produced as part of the 2021 CalArts REEF Residency. She serves as Managing Editor of The Quarterless Review and holds an MFA from CalArts.


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