The Puerto Rican artist marks the 10th anniversary of the Atrium Project at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Acting as both an architectural meditation on home and a sanctuary of ideological formation is Edra Soto’s solo exhibition, the place of dwelling. Installed within Gunnar Birkerts’s atrium for the tenth anniversary of the Atrium Project at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Soto’s intervention converses with the space, activating its cathedral-like volume as a threshold between the sacred and the domestic, the institutional and the everyday.
Drawing from the visual language of Puerto Rican wrought-iron screens, ceramics, fans, and devotional ornament, Soto translates the aesthetics of working-class interiors into a spatial grammar of memory, labor, and belief, proposing the home as a parallel to the church and the museum alike: a place where meaning is rehearsed, rituals are learned, and histories are quietly inscribed.
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