framing of a space that waits

2022

2022 Mid-Career Fellowship Artist

Artist Statement

framing of a space that waits is imagined to be a haunting from the future. This house glows in the dark, creating a kind of portal to a different possible reality where everything might be turned upside down and inside-out. The house is created from common residential building materials and home furnishings that conflate indoor and outdoor spaces. All the chairs were once in the homes of local residents. The work evokes relationships between these actual materials and the mythologies that underlie land ownership and development, where there is generally a strong belief in the security and stability of homes and ownership of land. The open public space of a park provides fantasies that offer relaxation and relief from the real and can create a future re-imagined. As a way to reconsider the origins of homestead land, this work is framed within a queer futurism that intersects with the local colonial present, where the history of free land and public space still has troubling consequences for class, gender, and race relations. This work raises questions about the relationships between various forms of land use associated with parks and homes, whether infrastructural, recreational, commercial, or sacred.

Kim Zumpfe