to my carpenter center for the visual arts
Cambridge MA, USA
2018-2020
Cambridge MA, USA
2018-2020
This thesis is created from and for the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier’s 1963 building for Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (then VES).
Its principle is care. Its seven parts include counterfeit vitrines, pedestals, and information sheets that exhibit the site's unofficial histories, cubes made to match its colors and the measurements of my body, and sunflower seeds mailed with thank-you letters to its people during COVID.
Its point is to be an intervention into the lived experience of site as a material and social space, an institutional critique of its modernism from a feminist, post-colonial subjectivity, and most of all, a dedication to the faculty and staff who have made home at this site, and made it home.