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Elsa María Meléndez, La Isla de las nostalgias, 2020-2022

Elsa María Meléndez

La Isla de las nostalgias, 2020-2022
Embroidery on canvas with discarded stuffed stockings, and wire.
wire frame with padded stockings.
Site specific installation:
170x56 in
38x39x14 in
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'La Isla de las nostalgias, a piece that is rooted in the day I returned from taking my son to study at the university in Philadelphia. My return to the...
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"La Isla de las nostalgias, a piece that is rooted in the day I returned from taking my son to study at the university in Philadelphia. My return to the empty house, the finding of all those socks abandoned in the drawers of my son's room. Miguel's socks that later became the thousands of lost and forgotten socks in a common, intimate and collective theme, with an eye as a symbol of awakening, that we are aware, looking, acting."

Elsa María Meléndez

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Exhibitions

Vengo de una isla de confusión, Alabama Contemoirary Art Center, Sept 30-Dec 10, 2022

Rollins Museum of Art, May 27-Sept 3, 2023

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