What does an artist bring to a homecoming? Working in her Bedford–Stuyvesant studio, artist Marela Zacarías undertakes Red Meander (2014), a commission by the Art in Embassies program for the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico. Zacarías enlists the help of a team of eight assistants to create the fifty-eight foot long by eleven foot tall work—her […]
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Pepon Osorio in "Place"
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Marela Zacarías Goes Big & Goes Home
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India
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Do Ho Suh in "Stories"
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Printing Two Perspectives
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A Brief History of Shana Moulton & Whispering Pines
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Sandusky, Ohio
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LaToya Ruby Frazier Makes Moving Pictures
New York Close Up
Sally Mann in "Place"
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Meriem Bennani's Exploded Visions
New York Close Up
Real Biography
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Hiwa K in "Berlin"
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City & Country
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Bryan Zanisnik Keeps It in the Family
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Autoconstrucción
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Going Home
“I want to carry my home with me all the time, like a snail,” mused Do Ho Suh in the second season of our Art in the Twenty-First Century series. The idea of home can be translated in a variety of ways: from a literal representation found in built structures and hometowns, to the feeling of acceptance discovered by a new place and community. This collection of films explores how artists address the concept of home. Themes of contradiction, coming-of-age, blight, and immigration are all confronted with the use of sculpture, photography, and video works.
by Art21December 20, 2018 15 videos • 2:00:32 total runtime
