Sarah Chaplin Espenon – Blinded by Your Grace

In an ambitious collaborative research project that moves beyond storm chasing as subculture or spectacle, Blinded by Your Grace draws on and reframes existing visual material made by women who intentionally move towards danger. The project considers risk not as an inevitable condition, but as an unevenly distributed privilege: one that requires access to time, mobility, and the social permission to linger, wait and voluntarily suspend protection. Registering storms for their beauty and intensity, the work asks who is permitted to approach threat, who is expected to remain safe, and whose proximity to danger is socially legitimised. Through extensive research and collaboration with women storm chasers worldwide, Chaplin Espenon advances a critical visual position in which storm chasing becomes an allegorical terrain through which broader structures of power, visibility, and autonomy come into view.

Images of "Blinded by Your Grace" by Loose Joints. Images courtesy of Sarah Chaplin Espenon.