Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/25/2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Armory Center For the Arts
Category(ies)
Devastation in Altadena. Home of our friend and collaborator Gareth Peries, by his own camera.
Here Lay A Home is a collective of cultural workers observing the making and unmaking of home through its material and sonic impressions on Altadena, CA.
Weaving disciplines of archive stewardship, collaborative media, and earth architecture, the collective offers a cathartic labor of building from broken parts and the ground that remains. Together, the group composes an ephemeral home for memory objects, loss, and transformation, and the community outcry that wills a place to exist beyond its realized disaster. As Altadena resists erasure by environmental crisis, gentrification, and displaced histories, Here Lay A Home‘s namesake exhibition recognizes the nature of impermanence and the work of preserving home when the structure is no longer standing.
This exhibition stages the collective’s second participatory installation as part of the Altadena Altarvention series in response to the Eaton Fire, and is presented alongside a series of concurrent programming on memory, ecology, and housing. Altadena residents and the surrounding community are invited to offer their realities of reconstructing and to commemorate their own homes with casts of salvaged objects, personal archive sessions, community roundtables, and collaborative performances of shared voice.
The Here Lay A Home collective is stewarded by Kennedy Arnette, Cienna Benn, Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles, Mia Glionna, Parker Graffham, Phillip Harper, David Hines, Allison McAdoo, Kiara Walls, and Lauren Williams. This exhibition is made possible in part with lead support from the Perenchio Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The exhibition will be open from August 25, 2025 – September 28, 2025. Gallery hours are Fridays from 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm, and Saturdays & Sundays from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Email exhibitions@armoryarts.org if you’d like to organize a guided tour outside of regular gallery hours for up to 20 guests. Admission is always free.
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