Embodied Homescapes

Exhibition Statement 

 

"Embodied Homescapes" is a contemporary art exhibition that invites viewers to engage with the ways in which home is embodied, experienced, and negotiated by individuals and communities, and how it intersects with broader social, cultural, and political forces. 

 

"Embodied Homescapes" refers to the ways in which individuals and communities embody, experience, and negotiate their relationship to home in complex socio-cultural contexts. It emphasizes the intimate and visceral nature of the relationship between home and the body, and foregrounds the ways in which home is embodied and experienced in diverse ways. The term "Embodied Homescapes" seeks to capture the idea that home is not just a physical place or a symbolic concept, but rather an embodied experience that is deeply intertwined with larger issues of identity, belonging, and social justice.

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Through their works, the artists offer critical reflections on the affective and symbolic power of home, foregrounding its entanglement with larger issues of power, inequality, and social justice. Hagudeza Rullán-Fantauzzi's short film explores the . Viewers can note the artist's dance background, as the viewer is brought into the visceral and intimate relationship between home and self - wild and expressive at home, negotiating emotions and experience, and formal and tightened up in the world. Jaclyn Jacunski's site-specific installation critiques the gentrification of home spaces, exposing the embodied dynamics of place-making and displacement. Leila Ghasempor's photographic works offer a personal and nuanced examination of home, foregrounding the diverse ways in which individuals and communities negotiate their relationship to home in complex socio-cultural contexts. [Add Crystal's information when it is received] 

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"Embodied Homescapes" encourages viewers to contemplate the ways in which home is embodied and experienced, and how it intersects with larger issues of identity, belonging, and social justice. The exhibition invites critical inquiry into the complex and intimate relationship between home and identity, and encourages a nuanced and intersectional understanding of the ways in which place shapes the self and the body. 

 

On view from June 9 - July 28, 2023