Tanya Brodsky, Temporary public installation presented as part of Materials & Applications summer program, Privacies Infrastructure.
Resembling the outline of a house in space, the piece allows viewers to simultaneously occupy its interior and exterior. As a portable structure that joins disparate architectural elements without adding up to a functional whole, the work draws on each viewer’s memories and associations to fill in a mental construction of home. It considers the idea of home itself as a shifting and contentious site, rich with the memories and desires of past and future occupants. Installed on the site of an apartment building that tragically collapsed in December 2000, 1601 Park reflects on this history, and is dedicated to the memory of the site and its former residents.
On view: July 21–September 30, 10AM–7PM @ 1601 W Park Ave (NW corner of W Park Ave / Echo Park Ave, near Echo Park Lake).
Site is open Thursdays through Sundays 10AM–7PM.
