Philadelphia, PA
Making Home
2020 - 2022
This large-scale installation delves into the feelings of isolation and vulnerability experienced during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using bricks and household objects, the piece highlights the concept of home as both a place of safety and a space of confinement. Remarkably, the original work was destroyed within 24 hours of its completion, which adds to the conversation about the fragility of security and the artist's practice of letting go. The work also comments on social hierarchies and the psychological impact of isolation.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid x Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
Making Home in Transit
2022
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce 5x5, a series of exhibitions in Berlin that nurture communication between cultures and explore the dialogue, creativity, invention, and cultural impact that defines artist-run spaces. The Berlin spaces will subsequently exhibit their member work in the USA at their partner TSA space in 2023.
The title for the first part of the exchange, when the American artists exhibit in Berlin, is Meanwhile, We Are Here. This title emerged from the organizers’ discussions around the present moment as well as the importance of connection and community. Throughout 2020 and 2021, we have had to reckon with the realities of loss, isolation, nationalism, and individualism. As a result, we decided to focus this exhibition exchange on connection, memory, and visions for the future. We thought about two signifiers: the time capsule and the wormhole. The time capsule represents archives, selection, hidden histories to be revealed at a later time, future relics. Like the time capsule, the wormhole connects points in time, simultaneous occurrences, and differing realities. Both are time machines, capable of compressing the past, present, and future. The title also relates to functioning as an artist during times of upheaval; we persevere in making work, our practices become entwined with events in the wider world. Each TSA site will have the freedom to interpret the theme of Meanwhile, We Are Here in any way they wish.
We are excited to present six exhibitions, a performance, and a film night as part of the exchange.
Organized by Carl Baratta, Susan Klein, Bettina Weiß, and Daniel Wiesenfeld.
