Darcy Whent: Tell Tales

Tell Tales is a multidisciplinary project that explores the shifting nature of memory and the stories we construct to make sense of our lives. Through painting, drawing, and mixed media installation, the work revisits fragments of domestic life, childhood recollections, and familial narratives, reimagining them with emotional intensity and ambiguity.

Rooted in the concept of autofiction, Tell Tales draws from personal experience while blurring the lines between fact and imagination. It interrogates the ways in which memory is shaped by emotion, repetition, and time, and how the stories we inherit or invent hold deeper truths about identity, belonging, and the complexity of womanhood.

The title nods to the childhood phrase “telling tales,” evoking both the mischief of fabrication and the power of storytelling. At its core, Tell Tales is about emotional truth—those intangible residues of lived experience that persist even when facts fade—inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationship with the past.