We reveal how victim-blaming questions protect perpetrators, harm survivors, and impede justice. Through room-scale installations, poetry, testimony, garments, objects, documentary records, sound, video, film, podcasts, and public learning, we document gender-based violence and the institutional failures that enable it.
The question that blames victims for gender-based violence by treating clothing as justification.
The question that ignores coercive control, danger, and institutional failure in domestic violence.
The question that treats silence as the problem rather than examining why children do not speak.
The Wrong Questions Project's signature framework is a modular system of exhibits that can be installed individually, in combination, or as a fully integrated installation. Each module begins with a victim-blaming question and traces how that question functions to blame survivors and enable violence.
The exhibits are not illustrations of survivor testimony. They are survivor-centred multi-arts documentary works. Clothing, words, objects, statistics, case records, audio, video, testimony, and family witness operate together as artistic and evidentiary materials. Their composition, scale, sequence, spacing, sound, and the viewer's movement through the room make visible what has been normalized, minimized, laundered, and administratively absorbed.
Before the exhibit:
65%
overestimated false allegations
After the exhibit:
39%
overestimated false allegations
Nearly all participants reported learning important things they plan to apply in their future work.
We are proud to partner with the Gabby Petito Foundation, A New Dawn, and Teverra Photography for this event.
Wellspring, Malta, NY
October 10, 2026
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The Role of Victim-Blaming & Indifference in Facilitating & Perpetuating Gender-Based Crimes
This module confronts how victim-blaming questions treat clothing as explanation for sexual violence. The question redirects scrutiny from perpetrator to victim, making the person harmed answer for violence they did not cause.
Coercive Control through Language
This module dismantles the question that treats leaving as a simple decision. It documents the violence that makes leaving dangerous: coercive control, stalking, threats, surveillance, and institutional failures that leave women unprotected.
Silencing Children
This module examines how the question fails children by treating silence as the problem rather than examining adults, institutions, and systems that failed to listen, recognize, investigate, intervene, or protect.
