"Originally two rooms, the artist recalls the scar left in the ceiling from when the joint wall was torn down, as well as her parents' awkward attempts at dealing with the two remaining side-by-side doors, and a later attempt to split the room again using upholstered doors as room dividers. Installed at Leroy's - formerly Thanh Vi Restaurant and now an artist-run space - the artist's solo exhibition explores the traces that people and places leave on our lives,"
"Untitled Damages (ROOM DIVIDER) presents two bodies of flood-damaged photographs by Ross-Ho's parents - one by her mother, Laurel M. Ross, picturing her childhood home; the other by her father, Ruyell Ho, from his days as a commercial photographer. Her mother's black and white photographs are presented simply in acrylic shadow boxes. Notably, they are not mounted to any backing so the prints, curled and warped from water, sit inside these boxes like sculptural objects."
An exhibition reconstructs a childhood bedroom's physical and emotional scars, from a torn joint wall to awkward side-by-side doors and later upholstered dividers. Two bodies of flood-damaged photographs by the artist's parents anchor the installation: the mother's black-and-white prints of the family home and the father's commercial color transparencies. The mother's prints sit unmounted in acrylic shadow boxes, their curled, water-warped surfaces presented as sculptural objects. The father's 8-by-10 color transparencies are shown in lightboxes that double as exhibition lighting, with water damage creating tendrils of swirling color along each image. Domestic fabrics and wrapped doors reinforce how relationships and places leave lasting traces on identity.
Read at Hyperallergic
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]