Nyahalay's artistic language emerges from tension. She turns, again and again, to what has been discarded. To the overlooked edge, and to the object or body or memory that has slipped just beyond the boundary of care. But there is always, always, a stubborn trace of value. This work inhabits these contradictions, resisting the impulse to resolve them, instead allowing dissonance to breathe and settle into something contemplative.

Born of Sierra Leone and its inheritances of conflict, scarcity, and deeply rooted social practices, Nyahalay's perspective is grounded in an early understanding of both vulnerability and endurance. These origins instilled in her empathy as a disciplined way of seeing: a refusal to look away, a commitment to hold complexity without flattening it