I've Saved All My Secrets for You was the first collaborative exhibition by artist Victoria Olt and poet David Xam. It grew out of a period in both of their lives when words, and feelings, had been kept locked away. The works shown in this exhibition came from the moment after that silence, when both artists finally found a way to express themselves: Victoria through painting, and David through poetry. It was an exhibition about letting emotions out into the world, about what happens when you stop holding back.

Through a series of deeply personal, melancholic, and reflective artworks, the exhibition explored themes of identity and healing. Victoria’s paintings, often featuring abstract figures, dark tones, and symbolic elements, created striking visual narratives about the complexities of love and its sometimes painful realities. In parallel, David’s concise free verse poems echoed those feelings in words. Lines about love, loss, trauma, and the slow, uneven process of healing.

Their connection began around 2017–2018, when both were navigating heartbreak and posting their work online. Though strangers, living worlds apart - Victoria in Spain and David in Kashmir -the honesty in their work made them notice one another. Across continents, their posts began to feel like pieces of the same story told in two different languages: one in images, one in words. Quiet recognition turned into admiration, and admiration into a conversation that would shape both of their practices.

When their work was finally brought together for this first collaborative exhibition, it revealed how two people who have never met can still share the same story. On the gallery walls, Victoria’s emotive paintings and David’s distilled, confessional poems stood side by side, each expanding the other’s meaning. I've Saved All My Secrets for You became the foundation of a creative partnership that continues to explore how art and poetry can echo each other across distance, turning deeply personal experiences into something universal.