Home, Elsewhere
Truffs Contemporary Art Foundation
Los Angeles Design Art Weekend
Blue & The Muse, Los Angeles, CA
Friday, October 2, 5-9 pm
2026
Truffs Contemporary Art Foundation
Los Angeles Design Art Weekend
Blue & The Muse, Los Angeles, CA
Friday, October 2, 5-9 pm
2026
The painting Escalera (2026) is part of En otra vida (In Another Life), a series through which I attempt to reconstruct a relationship with the maternal grandmother I never met using the archival traces she left behind.
Her working life began at thirteen, as a bank teller. Toward its end she was a secretary at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Bacardí administration building in Tultitlán, Mexico—his only completed building in Latin America. That life coincided with a period in which multinational corporations used modernist architecture to project visions of progress, mobility, and cosmopolitan belonging.
Escalera depicts the spiral staircase of a 1968 house in Tecamachalco designed by Juan Polo Estrada and Leopoldo Márquez, where my grandmother lived and my mother spent part of her childhood. Moving from the corporate workplace into the modernist home, the painting brings postwar architectural aspirations into an intimate and intergenerational register. Its staircase becomes both a structure within a family dwelling and an image of passage between one life and another.
Rendered in a hazy blue-grey palette recalling cyanotypes and architectural blueprints, the pictures in this series move between public record and private inheritance, historic architecture and intimate possession. Rather than treating modernism as an autonomous style, the series returns it to the lives, labor, and aspirations embedded within its spaces. If home is where memory gathers, these paintings create a provisional place from which I can reach for her.
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Bringing together four artists working across a range of materials and forms, Home, Elsewhere considers how home is carried and reconstructed through objects, memory and inherited practices when the places associated with it are altered or lost.
The exhibition features work by Saba Al Sadr, Carly França, Fía Benitez and Brenda Gonzalez. A live performance of Saba Al Sadr’s Pattern Singing will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Organized by Laurel Rohera, Director of Truffs Contemporary Art Foundation.
Event link.
View PDF catalog here.
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Escalera, 2026
Oil on wood panel; spiral staircase in the artist’s grandmother’s home in Tecamachalco, Mexico (1968), designed by Juan Polo Estrada and Leopoldo Márquez
36 x 36 x 2 in.
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Home, Elsewhere (installation view), 2026
Blue & the Muse, Los Angeles, CA
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Home, Elsewhere (installation view), 2026
Blue & the Muse, Los Angeles, CA
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Home, Elsewhere (installation view), 2026
Blue & the Muse, Los Angeles, CA
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Event documentation by Sarah Lyon
Poster courtesy TCAF
Her working life began at thirteen, as a bank teller. Toward its end she was a secretary at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Bacardí administration building in Tultitlán, Mexico—his only completed building in Latin America. That life coincided with a period in which multinational corporations used modernist architecture to project visions of progress, mobility, and cosmopolitan belonging.
Escalera depicts the spiral staircase of a 1968 house in Tecamachalco designed by Juan Polo Estrada and Leopoldo Márquez, where my grandmother lived and my mother spent part of her childhood. Moving from the corporate workplace into the modernist home, the painting brings postwar architectural aspirations into an intimate and intergenerational register. Its staircase becomes both a structure within a family dwelling and an image of passage between one life and another.
Rendered in a hazy blue-grey palette recalling cyanotypes and architectural blueprints, the pictures in this series move between public record and private inheritance, historic architecture and intimate possession. Rather than treating modernism as an autonomous style, the series returns it to the lives, labor, and aspirations embedded within its spaces. If home is where memory gathers, these paintings create a provisional place from which I can reach for her.
*
Bringing together four artists working across a range of materials and forms, Home, Elsewhere considers how home is carried and reconstructed through objects, memory and inherited practices when the places associated with it are altered or lost.
The exhibition features work by Saba Al Sadr, Carly França, Fía Benitez and Brenda Gonzalez. A live performance of Saba Al Sadr’s Pattern Singing will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Organized by Laurel Rohera, Director of Truffs Contemporary Art Foundation.
Event link.
View PDF catalog here.
Escalera, 2026Oil on wood panel; spiral staircase in the artist’s grandmother’s home in Tecamachalco, Mexico (1968), designed by Juan Polo Estrada and Leopoldo Márquez
36 x 36 x 2 in.
Home, Elsewhere (installation view), 2026
Blue & the Muse, Los Angeles, CA
Home, Elsewhere (installation view), 2026
Blue & the Muse, Los Angeles, CA
Home, Elsewhere (installation view), 2026
Blue & the Muse, Los Angeles, CA
Event documentation by Sarah LyonPoster courtesy TCAF