Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York and Richmond, Virginia. Using video, sculpture, photography, and text, she points to the carceral, the personal, the political, and the quotidian to reveal largely unseen and potentially imperceptible violence. She has, in particular, explored the trauma and emotional violence affected on incarcerated individuals and their loved ones. Mining her own experiences of visiting her father in prisons for the past 19 years, Smith often visualizes ways in which an impersonal bureaucratic system of incarceration affects the bodies and minds of people bound to it in various ways.