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La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home

June 15, 2024 - November 15, 2024

A pavilion formed from a series of colorful lattice panels installed in a park space.
Edra Soto, La Casa de Todos, Comfort Station, 2024. Photo by Ricardo Adame.

Comfort Station presents La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home, an exhibition by Chicago-based artist Edra Soto. Soto’s practice draws from her Puerto Rican roots to instigate conversations about history, diasporic identity, and constructed social orders. La Casa de Todos builds on her ongoing project “Graft,” which integrates architectural intervention and social practice.

With this public installation, Soto invites the community to celebrate a shared home together. La Casa de Todos, or “Everyone’s Home,” reconfigures Via Chicago Architects + Disenadores’ work titled SCAFFOLD, transforming its structure by overlapping abstract carved panels and delineating safe zones destined to house public gatherings and moments for celebration.

The decorative motifs carved to the panels are directly sourced from representations of rejas (wrought iron screens) commonly found throughout Puerto Rico. The structure’s multicolored palette, a new approach to Soto’s work, was sourced from the archipelago’s residential architecture. Her representations of rejas propose and celebrate the cultural value of Puerto Rico’s lower- and middle-class communities. Soto’s works investigate and make visible the relationships between Puerto Rican cultural memory, its African and Black heritage, and the threads of colonial historical lineage of the United States.

Beginning with the exhibition opening on June 15, Comfort Station is hosting a series of related performances and programming, many of which are co-produced by the Palenque LSNA neighborhood association of Logan Square.

 

Comfort Station presenta La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home, una exposición de la artista basada en Chicago Edra Soto. La práctica de Soto extrae de sus raíces puertorriqueñas para instigar conversaciones sobre historia, identidad en diáspora y ordenes sociales construidos. La Casa de Todos  se desarrolla sobre su proyecto continuo “Graft”, el cual integra intervenciones arquitectónicas y la práctica social.

Con esta instalación pública, Soto invita a la comunidad a celebrar juntes un hogar compartido. La Casa de Todos reconfigura SCAFFOLD, obra de Via Chicago Architects + Disenadores, transformando su estructura al contraponer paneles abstractos tallados y delineando zonas seguras destinadas a albergar reuniones públicas y momentos de celebración.

Los motivos decorativos tallados en los paneles son una referencia directa de las rejas de metal que se pueden encontrar por todo Puerto Rico. La paleta multicolor de la estructura, algo nuevo en la obra de Soto, hace referencia a la arquitectura residencial del archipiélago. Sus representaciones de las rejas propone y celebra el valor cultural de las comunidades de clase media y baja de Puerto Rico. El trabajo de Soto investiga y hace visibles las relaciones entre la memoria cultural puertorriqueña, su herencia negra y africana y el linaje histórico colonial de los Estados Unidos.

Comfort Station está organizando una serie de performances y programas que comienzan con la inauguración de la exposición el 15 de junio. Muchos de estos eventos están co-producidos por la asociación de vecines de Logan Square, Palenque LSNA.

Details

Details

Start:
June 15, 2024
End:
November 15, 2024
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Accessibility

Free Admission

Wheelchair Accessible

Bilingual

Organizer

Comfort Station Logan Square
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kitty@comfortstationlogansquare.org
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Region
West Side, North Side
Format
In Person
Audience
Life-long Learners, Teens, Families
Accessibility
Free Admission, Wheelchair Accessible, Bilingual
Event Topics
Community, Public Art, Racial Identity, Women Artists

Venue

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Location

Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, 60647
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