{"id":10056,"date":"2015-05-29T17:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/?page_id=10056"},"modified":"2024-06-07T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T23:42:24","slug":"an-earlier-account","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/site-specific-installations\/an-earlier-account\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earlier Account"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For \u201chow good are your dwelling places\u201d an exhibition in an empty residence, organized by the Koffler Center in Toronto and curated by Cyril Reade, I focused production on my domestic residence \u2013 what it had, what it has lost, what I want it to have, and how those relate to a collective understanding of domestic environments and cultural displacement, permanence, integration, and ignorance. \u00a0 \u00a0When my family moved to a home previously owned by Jews, renovations to the building meant taking it from its past. I was never comfortable with that; our habitation of the house obliterated a\u00a0record of a family and its routine intersections with objects and spaces. \u00a0An Earlier Account<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0projected images into the remnants of an abandoned kitchen. Each projection is doubled referring to the separation of dairy and meat common to some Jewish homes \u2013 a custom which was not\u00a0observed in our renovated kitchen.<\/div>\n
\u2190 Site-Specific Installations<\/a><\/div><\/div>