Vuslat and Sana Frini

Vuslat and Sana Frini, House of Silence

The House of Silence is inspired by the ancient nomadic shelter, the yurt—a moving home shaped as a circle. As the outer world shifts and transforms, the yurt protects an inner center: a place of gathering, remembrance, and return.The viewer passes through a dark corridor to reach an inner circular space, silenced by felt and illuminated by an opening at the top. At the center stands a three-dimensional work which is the focal point. Surrounded by artworks on the walls. This is a place of reflection where we invite the viewer to connect to his/her silence and see what emerges. What emerges in his/her silence is his/her home.

Artist bios:
Vuslat is a multidisciplinary artist working across  drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and installation.  

Her practice centers on the concept of emanet,  a framework through she investigates trust,  care, guardianship, memory, and collective  consciousness. Drawing from mythological  narratives, philosophical inquiry, and nature– 

Culture entanglements, she develops a poetic yet  conceptually meticulous visual language. Rooted  in processes of remembering and transmission,  her work reflects on forms of knowledge that  are carried across generations and entrusted  through time.  

After nearly two decades of working privately,  Vuslat presented her first solo exhibition,  silence, at pi artworks gallery in 2022, curated  by chus martínez. This was followed by her first  institutional exhibition, emanet, at the baksi  museum in 2023. In 2024 she held a solo exhibition  at msgsu tophane-I amire five domes hall, curated  by ebru yetişkin, and presented her second  institutional exhibition, at troy museum curated  by paolo colombo.  

In 2020, she founded generous listening, a global  initiative exploring listening as an ethical and  social practice. As of 2024, she is pursuing an MFA at  Otis College of Art and Design. For the spring 2026  term, she is visiting scholar at Tufts University,  where she teaches a course on the generous  listening framework.

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Sana Frini, Tunisian born / Mexican  based architect and Co-founder of Locus (Mexico City, México).  

Is a Tunisian architect and co-founder of locus  since 2020 (Mexico City, México).  

Her practice focuses on architectural processes  in the global south, including neovernacular  systems, participatory processes, local  reintegrations and climate resilience.  

She earns an March in Architecture and Southern Urban Studies from utl (lisbon) and an msc in  globalization and environment (nova, lisbon). 

She has been leading projects in artistic  installations, architecture and academic research  in France, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, the United States,  and Tunisia. Her work has been exhibited at the  Venice Biennial (2025, 2021) the Versailles Biennial  (2025), the Mexican Design Week (2024) the herbert  johnson museum (2022) and the Lisbon Architecture  Triennale (2016). She has been awarded the Gensler Visiting Critics (2021) and the Erasmus Mundus  Scholarship (2013).  

With locus, she has been leading several  regenerational projects with eco-localist scope  such as a low-carbon public building in Mexico,  the first zero-waste restaurant in latin america  and a climate readaptative educational facilities  in a mexican prison.  

In 2025, she was selected as co-curator for the  architecture and landscape biennale of île-de france, she was also part of the collective that  represented Mexico at the 19th international  architecture exhibition of the venice biennale. 

She has taught at universities such as Cornell University, Kent University, and Columbus University.

Vuslat
vuslat.artinstagram.com/vuslatds
Sana Frini
instagram.com/sanafrini

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