Calling Home: Family Archives
(2022)
Calling Home: Family Archives, a small solo exhibition at Kingston Gallery, began as a personal investigation into my mother’s life growing up in Boston. Her life was shaped by housing instability and frequent displacement, moving likely about a dozen times before she turned 18. Since her death, and with few close living family members to recount the lives of her and my grandparents, I relied on the ephemera that she left behind: photographs with messages written on the back that revealed addresses, my mother and grandfather’s wallets, archived telephone books, census records, and more.
Drawing from family ephemera and photographs of her former homes, the project traces how these experiences reverberate across generations. Presented alongside my public work, Calling Home, it expands this history into a collective exploration of housing insecurity and memory as both generational memory and how we build memories collectively.
What I remember and what I don’t remember 1950-2022 Dimensions variable Family photographs.
Installation view with the video that played inside of the drawers.
Images from the installation. Click to enlarge the images.
