UnHide

This project speaks to trauma survivors through symbolic visuals, offering space for unspoken experiences and fostering public empathy—avoiding stereotypes while sharing hope, understanding, and moments that make the unseen gently visible.

Inspiration

Trauma leaves marks that are not always visible. Its weight is carried inward—through confusion, silence, and questions of self-worth. In many cases, these experiences remain unseen, dismissed, or misinterpreted by the world around us.

A safe space

In India, conversations around mental health are often shaped by stigma. Survivors are silenced through societal judgment, cultural misconceptions, and the absence of empathy. They are told their pain is weakness, or that it does not exist at all. UnHide responds to this silence by offering a space where survivors can feel recognised, and where their inner realities can take form.

The guiding light

The work approaches trauma through symbolic and metaphoric imagery, translating emotions that resist verbal explanation. The images hold space for complexity, sensitivity, and truth.

Guided by four values—to educate, to connect, to be sensitive, and to spread hope—UnHide brings forward both the fragility and resilience within trauma. It does not deny pain, but places alongside it the possibility of healing, recognition, and empathy.


Bridging the gap

Here, art becomes a bridge: between silence and voice, between stigma and understanding, between isolation and belonging.