My Name Is Mimosa
Curated by Devaki Murch

Exhibit runs April 4 - 25, 2026

“I never had a hospital record or baby book. I had newspaper headlines. On April 4, 1975, the first evacuation flight of Operation Babylift crashed shortly after take off, 150 children survived - I was one of them. For decades, my origin story lived in archives I'd never seen. Then the archives found me, and I became their keeper. This exhibition is my reconstruction: the news articles, flight documents, and magical connections that turned 50 years of silence into voice. What started as a personal inquiry became a mission to reconnect an entire community with their beginnings”.

—Devaki Murch 

Devaki Murch works where archives play hide and seek and stories refuse to stay quiet. She is an artist, curator, researcher, and experience designer. Her work grows from her own history as an Operation Babylift survivor and expands into archive processing, exhibitions, oral histories, and participatory storytelling projects. She lives somewhere between logistics and art, where ethics matter as much as aesthetics. She resides in Boulder, UT with her sweetheart Ace and their two critters, Seamus O'Doggie and Flynn-Again.

Read the article on Devaki in the Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.operationbabylift.org/