{"id":497,"date":"2021-05-21T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justingeller.com\/works\/?p=497"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:44:48","slug":"arrival-and-belonging-by-michelle-angela-ortiz-at-the-pma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/arrival-and-belonging-by-michelle-angela-ortiz-at-the-pma\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cArrival and Belonging\u201d by Michelle Angela Ortiz at the PMA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I made the lights for the lightboxes<br><br>The installation combines multiple light boxes made from etched and hand-painted photographs with an animation on video screens. It draws from first-person accounts to tell the stories of four people who moved to Philadelphia and the challenges they faced in making it their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo michelle gustafson for NYT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>&#8220;ARRIVAL AND BELONGING&#8221; (2021)<\/strong> IS A TWO-PART PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY THE PHILADELPHIA ART MUSEUM AS PART OF THE <a href=\"https:\/\/philamuseum.org\/calendar\/exhibition\/new-grit-art-philly-now\"><strong><em>&#8220;NEW GRIT: ART &amp; PHILLY NOW&#8221; EXHIBITION.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&#8220;ARRIVAL AND BELONGING&#8221; IS A LARGE-SCALE MULTISCREEN VIDEO INSTALLATION WITH LIGHTBOXES AND A SERIES OF EVENTS HIGHLIGHTING THE EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, ORTIZ GATHERED THE STORIES OF FOUR PHILADELPHIANS WHO REPRESENT A WIDE RANGE OF LIVED EXPERIENCES AS IMMIGRANTS AND MIGRANTS: FATU GAYFLOR, A WEST PHILADELPHIAN FROM WORLALA, LIBERIA, WHO FLED THE FIRST LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR; JAMAAL HENDERSON, A RECENT RESIDENT AND A PROMINENT LOCAL ADVOCATE FOR HOUSING RIGHTS FOR THE HOMELESS; CARLOS TORRES, A NORTH PHILADELPHIAN WHO LEFT PUERTO RICO FOLLOWING THE DEVASTATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE; AND EPIFANIA ORTIZ, A SOUTH PHILADELPHIA RESIDENT\u2014AND THE ARTIST\u2019S MOTHER\u2014WHO EMIGRATED FROM COLOMBIA. USING FIRST-PERSON TESTIMONIALS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND PAINTERLY ANIMATIONS, ORTIZ PERSONALIZES THESE FOUR ACCOUNTS AND HUMANIZES THE STRUGGLE AND CHALLENGES OF FINDING HOME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(PRODUCTION TEAM: JOSE MAZARIEGOS, GRALIN HUGHES, JUSTIN GELLER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the lights for the lightboxes The installation combines multiple light boxes made from etched and hand-painted photographs with an animation on video screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artinstall","category-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-places.com\/works\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}