durational performance / art center spring MFA open studios

“home as a fractured, fragile, or otherwise unsettled space of impossible inhabitation. home as a silent, incomplete, and unstable witness to loss. home which conveys an insistent desire to shelter human memory, however imperfectly. (claudette lauzon, the unmaking of home in contemporary art)

a dollhouse built by the artist when she was 11-years-old. a replica of her oregon childhood home. for decades the house was forgotten amongst the accumulation of her family's belongings. after its rediscovery the object was the focus of various conceptual actions which culminated in its destruction - depicted here.