Last Friday was the MFA 2008 Community Celebration and I’ve never seen the Henry so packed. The North Galleries were virtually shoulder-to-shoulder full and the line to spend a few quiet moments in Nicki Sucec’s Home Is The Most Import Place In The World, 2008 snaked across the floor alongside Alicia Basinger’s Tracing Time.
The photograph below gives you a glimpse of one of the memorial tags that Sucec has hand crafted to honor over 200 individuals that have died living on the streets of Seattle since the year 2000. The installation structure is made of four box springs, and a red sleeping bag draped across the top creates a warm glow as you enter. Inside, a four minute audio loop from court hearings about encampment sweeps is playing.
Nicki talks about her experience creating this artwork on the MFA podcast that I am uploading tomorrow and later this month Jamey Summa is launching the Henry’s first videocast, which will have footage of the installation. Photograph courtesy of Nicki Sucec.
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