A Puerto Rico home in Cabo Rojo has been in Elle Pérez’s family since at least the 1920s and has shaped their relationship to the island over 15 years of staying with relatives. The house is described as a place of familial importance and sentiment, and it is now the basis for creating an artist residency called Casa Pérez. Pérez and collaborators are raising $100,000 to buy out relatives who jointly inherited the property, where their great-grandmother lived about a century ago. To support the effort, Pérez sells a portfolio of one-off chromogenic studio prints for $1,795 each through a collaboration with Public Relations. The work includes intimate domestic spaces and lush garden imagery, and Pérez’s photography has appeared in major exhibitions.
"The setting was a home in Puerto Rico that has been in Pérez's family since at least the 1920s, the Bronx-born artist told me in an email this week. Along with being "a location of familial importance and sentiment," Pérez said, the house has allowed the photographer "to forge my own relationship to Puerto Rico over 15 years of staying with my family in Cabo Rojo," on the island's southwest coast."
"Now Pérez is hoping to allow other artists, Puerto Rican and not, that same opportunity. They are aiming to raise $100,000 to buy out relatives who jointly inherited the home, where their great-grandmother lived a century ago, in order to turn it into an artist residency called Casa Pérez."
"On a just-launched website, the artist is selling a portfolio of one-off chromogenic studio prints for $1,795 each in a collaboration with Public Relations, a cultural office based in New York and Glasgow. There are luminous forest scenes, limpid depictions of hands, and a great deal more."
"In their email, Pérez noted that Cabo Rojo has been the subject of intense and controversial real estate speculation"
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