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California artist Deanna Barahona’s work centers her lived experiences, identity, and personal objects in intimate and domestic spaces through the creation of sculpture, installation, and photography. She looks at the homes she grew up in and their objects that shape these interiors, specifically the characteristics within the Latin-American diaspora.
Barahona is interested in the colored walls, cartoon plushies, written letters, and the abundance of archives and heirlooms that have been passed down and exchanged across households. She pays attention to the detailed forms of decoration that unite Southern California homes with the ones her family migrated from. She sees ornaments collected as a means to heal and fill voids created by distance, separation, and time.
Barahona’s practice works through themes of collection, obsession, familial kinship, and symbolic expressions of love and romance.
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This exhibition is generously presented by the Institute for Museum and Library Services’
Inspire! Grants for Small Museums program
