TAKE MY HOME, HOME
Kledia Spiro, Take my home, home, augmented reality video, 2021, Kingston gallery, Boston, MA. Edited by Darren Alexander Cole.
TAKE MY HOME, HOME was part of my solo show Too (un)Familiar? at Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA.
Home, for me, has never actually been a physical place. Home for me is where my family is. Home is a feeling. Home is where I feel free and anchored and supported and loved, all the things that the reservoir provided. So, during the pandemic, I continued training to lift my parents, yet this time, I knew I wasn't going to do it alone. The paradoxically fragile nature of strength and the changing landscape of our home shifting yet again meant a new found freedom. The pandemic doubled up our strength and resiliency. We now had our family support system and the "natural" support system. We were in a symbiotic relationship where we were bringing our cultural fragments to a new landscape, while the new landscape was generating its own fragments with its new inhabitants.
Press + Media
The Boston Globe: “KLEDIA SPIRO: TOO (UN)FAMILIAR? Like many this last year, Spiro, a multimedia artist and weightlifter born in Albania, contemplated what home means. She rooted herself in the landscape of the Wachusett Reservoir, reflecting on the constancy of nature and the changes of an immigrant’s life. In photos and a video here, she ties the themes together, attempting to literally do what many children of immigrants do figuratively: Lift her parents up. Through May 2. Kingston Gallery. 450 Harrison Ave. 617-423-4113, www.kingstongallery.com”
CATE McQUAID
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McQuaid, Cate. "What's happening in the arts world." The Boston Globe, The Ticket, April 22, 2021.