"Neither her prisons nor her museums have people on view or obvious signage. It's just walls, doors, windows, iron bars, cells, solitary confinement rooms — and the occasional piece of art, which works to great effect in demonstrating how one may actually exist in these places, what they are instructed that they can and cannont touch, the freedoms they can and cannot feel.
And the work asks us to think bigger, not just about jails or exhibition spaces (though there is so much fodder there). It also uestions the way architecture contributes to the larger narratives we build around history, its power to elevate on perspective or person over another. Architects, administrators, and gatekeepers of design could learn much from this show about the clout they wield over the rest of us."
April 27, 2025
