This installation places voices and stories of participants in Dining Dreams, an ongoing dinner-club and performance series within a fictional space constructed with clothing, furniture, and other objects inherited from my own family. Gaining new agency over these beautiful and often burdensome, memory-filled objects through the similar stories of others, I construct new narratives about family, femininity, and spirituality growing up today. Installation on view at the Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, Fall 2015.
Slideshow: Installation elements include vintage coats, audio, slides and slide projector, collage, digitally printed custom silk wallpaper, handmade dress (made of custom designed, digitally printed raw silk), handmade table (white oak, steel hardware), chairs (artist’s parents’ own), mirror.
