Marais, Paris
Group Exhibition
All That She Holds Inside
Galerie DrosteNada Elkalaawy Ines Katamso Karla Leyva Julie Legouez Anna Virnich All That She Holds Inside brings together the work of Nada Elkalaawy, Ines Katamso, Karla Leyva, Julie Legouez, and Anna Virnich in a shared reflection on memory, transmission, and the quiet forces that shape women’s lives across generations. The title refers to something intimate and at times overwhelming: what is held within a woman’s life, often before it can even be put into words. It speaks to emotional, physical, and historical forms of continuity—of care, memory, and transmission—but also to the condition of the female body as a site where life is held, formed, and passed on. Within this understanding, femininity is not defined by assignment, but by relation and cycle: by birth, by bodily knowledge, and by the quiet transfer of feelings, fears, and experiences that begin before language. In this condition lies something deeply generative, resonating with the idea of Mother Earth: a continuous movement of holding, transforming, and giving life, in which memory is not only recalled but physically experienced. Women are not positioned as carriers of a fixed role, but as part of a larger living continuum in which identity, emotion, and history remain in motion. What is passed on is not only narrative or inheritance, but something more subtle: sensations, atmospheres, and inner states that move across generations like an invisible thread, constantly reshaping themselves as they are received. From this understanding, the initiator of the exhibition dedicates the project to her grandmother, Sigrid Andersch. Through her, she has come to see what it means to read a long life as an ongoing process of transformation—shaped by time, events, and ruptures that inscribe themselves into both body and inner life.