Muscle Memory

Muscle Memory is a collaborative art duo formed by interdisciplinary artists Renata Lee and Jordan Fallon, whose work navigates the spaces between embodied experience and collective remembrance. Drawing from backgrounds in dance, sculpture, and sound installation, the pair explore how the body archives memory through repeated gestures and inherited rituals. Since their founding in 2018, Muscle Memory has exhibited in galleries and alternative spaces across North America and Europe, including group exhibitions at Co-Prosperity Chicago and the Helsinki New Forms Festival, as well as site-specific commissions for community centers and historic buildings.

Their process is rooted in dialogue, engaging with local communities and archives to create participatory performances and multimedia installations that probe the elemental acts of learning, unlearning, and remembering through movement. Muscle Memory’s practice interrogates personal and public narratives embedded in physical spaces, using materials ranging from cast plaster and textiles to video diaries and field recordings. Their work has been recognized with grants from the U.S.

National Endowment for the Arts and residencies at Banff Centre and Mass MoCA. They are currently based between Detroit and Toronto.