Fri 5/16-Sat 7/19
Fri 5/16 @ 6-9PM
Puerto Rican-born artist/educator Edra Soto is the co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin in Chicago, where she now lives and works after earning her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her artistic practice addresses “constructed social orders, diasporic identity, and the legacy of colonialism” to “encourage a deeper understanding of our cross-cultural dynamics and sense of personal responsibility.”
When her show La Casa de Todo |Everyone’s Home opens at the Sculpture Center this week, she’ll be inviting guests to join her in celebrating home. The exhibit features family photos lent by Clevelanders through which she funnels her own Puerto Rico-based memories in the hope of that they will fuse to provide an element of familiarity for everyone who views them. The show includes audio by DJ Sadie Woods that provides stories and sounds behind the photos that round out their identities as “home.”
In addition, the gallery will be showing La Casa Compartida/The Home We Share, co-curated by Soto, Sculpture Center Executive Director Grace Chin, and Héctor Castellanos Lara, featuring artists Ewuresi Archer, Natalie Bermudez, Orlando Caraballo, Laura Camila Medina, James Negron, Maya Peroune, Dante Rodriguez, Oliver C, St. Clair, Ariel Vergez and Gina Washington, reflecting on the experience of migration.
The show opens with a free, public reception on May 16 and will be on view through July 19.