Sentida is a collection of Selena Ward’s recent installation pieces that serves as a visual memoir for her surge in personal reflection and self discovery within recent years. Bookmaking, quiltmaking and image making all feature to dissect her feelings of displacement within her own Chicana identity, explore her obscured ancestral history, and question conflicting ideas on beauty, womanhood, love, domesticity, and loss. 

Selena is an undergraduate photographer and artist who uses multi-media image making, video, and installation as a way to look within and ground herself. From embroidering quilts with childhood memorabilia to creating colorful and indulgent images, she is inspired by her own emotive life experiences and intricacies of life as a Mexican-American woman in this generation, and seeks to discover and slowly reveal herself through her work. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Find her on Instagram: @selenaward

Located in the Guichelaar Gallery, this exhibit is part of a Herron School of Art and Design Photography Senior Thesis series curated by Jane Sun Kim, a visual artist in our long term residency program, APLR.

The Guichelaar Gallery and Residency House located next door to Tube Factory at 1135 Cruft St. is a contemporary art space operated by Big Car Collaborative APLR artists. It also serves as a home for visiting artists.