Exhibitions

Here Lay A Home is a collective of cultural workers observing the making and unmaking of home through its material and sonic impressions on Altadena, CA. Weaving disciplines of archive stewardship, collaborative media, and earth architecture, the collective offers a cathartic labor of building from broken parts and the ground that remains. Together, the group composes an ephemeral home for memory objects, loss, and transformation, and the community outcry that wills a place to exist beyond its realized disaster. As Altadena resists erasure by environmental crisis, gentrification, and displaced histories, Here Lay A Home's namesake exhibition recognizes the nature of impermanence and the work of preserving home when the structure is no longer standing.

This exhibition stages the collective's second participatory installation as part of the Altadena Altarvention series in response to the Eaton Fires, and is presented alongside a series of concurrent programming on memory, ecology, and housing. We invite Altadena residents and the surrounding community to offer their realities of reconstructing and to commemorate their own homes with casts of salvaged objects, personal archive sessions, community roundtables, and collaborative performances of shared voice.

The Here Lay A Home collective is stewarded by Kennedy Arnette, Cienna Benn, Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles, Mia Glionna, Parker Graffham, Phillip Harper, David Hines, Allison McAdoo, and Kiara Walls.

Image: Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles