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This installation featured everyday objects—shoes, birdhouses, old toys, silk flowers, lawn ornaments, and more, invoking ideas of home and personal memories. By day, viewers recognized familiar items that evoked a sense of cultural connection and belonging. By night, string lights, globes, and Christmas tree stars cast shadows across the environment, activating both the space and its visitors.
As light projected onto the surrounding materials, viewers and their surroundings became part of the work. The installation connected ideas of home and memory with the histories of the site and the audience. Visitors were invited to pose for photographs in the archway, placing themselves among the stories and memories embedded in each object.
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Mandy Cano Villalobos is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects span installation, painting, drawing, performance, sculpture and video. She has exhibited with drj (Berlin, Germany), Van Der Plas Gallery (New York, NY), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum (Clinton, NY), Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, (Chicago), The Museum of New Art (Detroit, MI), Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), Gray Contemporary (Houston, TX) and La Casa Pauly (Puerto Montt, Chile), among others. She has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Art Omi, Post Contemporary, Wassaic Project, Ragdale, and ACRE. Cano Villalobos received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. and currently resides in Grand Rapids, MI.
