LAMENT FOR THE UNVOICED,  2025,  audio installation, explores the enduring power of Finno-Ugric laments as embodied practices guiding people through life’s thresholds and collective ruptures. Present among Ingrians, Izhorians, Karelians, Mordvins, Setos, Veps, and Votians, these death, wedding, and event-based laments express a cyclical sense of life in which grief and transformation are inseparable. A lament cannot be chosen or memorized - it arises spontaneously from real loss or transition. Once carried by elder women as holders of experiential and ancestral knowledge, the tradition has faded as communal rites were institutionalized, public mourning stigmatized, and women’s knowledge devalued. Rooted in specific languages and cosmologies, lament gradually lost its social space. Drawing on fieldwork, archival recordings, and histories of people in Narva (Estonia) and its surroundings, “Lament for the Unvoiced” reactivates the lament tradition within a present context; and frames it as a form of emotional ecology, spiritual transformation, and social rhythms in a world in transition. Unfolding without fixed words, lamenting becomes a bodily act where breath and trembling voice carry what speech cannot, attuning the individual to the world and the otherworldly. In uncertain times, people often return to ancestral modes of understanding. Reviving lament as contemporary care, resilience, and resistance, the work invites audiences to listen and reflect on their own unvoiced laments - what calls for mourning now, and what still seeks resonance in the body and shared memory.