Luisa Brando (MDes CC ’18) exhibits work at the Ninth Harvard Student Art Show, that will be held at the Crossings Gallery & Gallery 224, 224 Western Ave., Allston, MA.
Brando said:
” I’m interested in understanding a place through different time´s between intangible and tangible elements. How the essence of a place transcends the “historic” definition that is given to an object, urban zone, or natural element; the territory carries a value and only in it does time break the perception of boundaries. Archival research, memory, and history are tools that are used to define what is heritage; yet what is given value in a place is subjective.
My work is the process of trying to understand the relation between memory and territory, through observation and through joining different elements that juxtapose in history. How does the way we relate to the natural resources tell us where do the values lie? What rhythms of time do they hold? How do they shape us?
The creative process comes from physical experiencing the territory; the dialogue between the personal journey and research to reading the paradox of a culture, the territory and it´s heritage.”
