An independently curated art exhibition on view from March 30 to May 20 at the IUB Sciences Library.
Home Bound is an independently curated art exhibition featuring artworks that each visualize aesthetic concepts of “home.” The art in this exhibition reveals that home is not necessarily constrained to a rigid structure because, in our lives marked by transience, our homes are bound to transition into other meanings of home. Bringing together more than fifteen artworks made by IU students and recent alumni, Home Bound acknowledges that in comparing ideas of home, we can meditate on the varied understandings of the passage of time, the limits of a space and memory, and the value of decoration. This exhibition’s aim is to use art to creatively imagine the experience of home, untethered to concrete structures and heteronormative notions of family.
The title evokes the dialectical definition of the word “homebound,” which can describe either the inability to leave one’s house for any given health-related reason or the path toward home as a destination. Opening with works such as Elizabeth Blackwell’s sculpture Never Safe, Jade Kern’s photograph series Change, Maggie Rushton’s digital composition What lives on?, Olivia Kalish’s works on paper Where Do We Go? and Sisters Always Share, and Regan Jones’s video Burnout and photograph It Might Hurt, Home Bound explores the meaning of home not only as a place to inhabit but also in relation to space, time, and familial affiliations. As the exhibition progresses, artists make visual the deeply internal process of building a home using personal experiences as materials, demonstrating an embrace of the journey toward a more expansive notion of home. Works such as Liliana Guzmán’s printa of Night Visit and Forever Tree, Gloria M. Colom Braña’s mixed media composition Perseverancia, Elena W.’s zine Blue is my Mom’s Favorite Color, and Flora Arthur’s hanging sculpture Metamorphosis explore this process of unearthing a home from within. Lucas Beam made the red promotional poster announcing Home Bound and designed gallery text.
This DIY exhibition is curated by Claudia González-Díaz with the support of Jennifer Simms, Faye Gleisser, Kalani Craig and the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at IU, Nazareth Pantaloni III, Linda Tien, and Claudia’s family and friends. Home Bound is on view from March 30 to May 20, 2023, at the IUB Sciences Library in the Chemistry Building C002. For exhibition updates and additional information about the artists in the show, please visit Home Bound’s Instagram @homebound_iu.
