“There is another world, but it is in this one,” said Surrealist poet Paul Éluard. In this exhibition, artists look to the future, imagining how we move forward from the tumultuous events of the past year. [read more]
Art in the Plague Year is an online exhibition organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther. UCR ARTS’s programs are supported by UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the City of Riverside, Altura Credit Union, and Anheuser-Busch.
All works in this exhibition are reproduced with permission of the artists/copyright holders. Works (images, video, audio or other content) must not be used or reproduced for any purposes other than fair use without prior consent of the artists.
(b. 1997, Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in New York, NY)
Homebound
Video, sound, 7:22 min. Best viewed in full-screen.
Cambria Kelley produced her video piece, Homebound, as Covid-19 exploded in her New York neighborhood in March 2020. “It offers a critical commentary of home, class, and memory based on the poetic uses of absence.” Kelley uses Google maps to trace, to sail above, to try to locate her childhood home in Gardena, California. She juxtaposes this with an educational “family management” video from affluent 1940s America. Cuts are abrupt, collisions direct, gaps frequent. The piece, she says, toggles “between the influences of technological surveillance and media representations of what ‘home’ is.” Kelley’s title reflects wry humor and sharp-edged sensibility. Does Homebound mean she is trapped at home? Or, does it signal that, against considerable odds, she is heading for home, bound for home (if so, where is home)?