Don’t Make Me Cry traces the fragile architecture of becoming, where strength is not inherited, but constructed under pressure. In the paintings of Ohud Khedr, the recurring figure of the underdog emerges not as a romantic hero, but as a psychological condition shaped by survival. Khedr comes from a culture marked by surrounding violence and a deep resistance to emotional vulnerability, where feeling is neither protected nor permitted, and where one is invited— implicitly and explicitly, to hold everything inside. Feeling must be concealed, contained, mastered, because within such a world, to be seen is to be exposed. This exhibition begins at Fracture , the breaking point where that containment fails. Here, the body and psyche split under the weight of what cannot be expressed, revealing the cost of silence. The title, Don’t Make Me Cry , operates as both plea and defense, a refusal to surrender to softness in a world that equates it with weakness. To be weak is to be exposed, and her characters resist this exposure with visible effort, holding themselves together against collapse. Khedr’s figures resist not only external forces, but the internal collapse that threatens to undo them; they hold themselves together with visible effort. Across the exhibition, becoming is not a transformation toward ease, but a continuous negotiation with pressure, an insistence on remaining intact, even when fracture feels inevitable.