PARADISE LOST / UTOPIA TO SURVIVAL - NO LONGER EMPTY
Paradise Lost/Regained? Utopia to Survival, Andrew Freedman House, Bronx NY, dry wall, canvas, collage, broken wood frame windows, laser photo transfers, 11 in. x 20 in. • 2012
Commissioned for No Longer Empty’s exhibition This Side of Paradise, curated by Manon Slome.
The installation is a book-like construction of broken drywall panels and broken wood frame windows. The panels are layered with torn canvas with curling edges, a metaphor for the story of the end of the Andrew Freedman house era and the once destitute Bronx. Eras are represented with phantom-like photos transferred on the canvas constructing a narrative of loss, change and survival. Panels are collaged with memorabilia, papers, references to Bronx Hip hop and the lives of residents salvaged from the moisture ridden remains.
Paradise Lost/ Regained? Utopia to Survival (details), Andrew Freedman House Grand Concourse at 166th, Bronx NY
Dry wall, canvas, collage, broken wood frame windows, laser photo transfers, 11 in. x 20 in. • 2012
Paradise Lost/ Regained? Utopia to Survival II: Intersecting Imaginaries, No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, Grand Concourse, Bronx NY, 8ft x 12ft x 22ft • 2015
Paradise Lost/ Regained? Utopia to Survival II: Intersecting Imaginaries, No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY, 8ft x 12ft x 22ft • 2015
Paradise Lost/ Regained? Utopia to Survival: Intersecting Imaginaries (detail), No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY, 8ft x 12ft x 22ft • 2015