Preparation(s) for a dinner

In this residency and intervention at the ICA San José, the gallery is transformed into an evolving site of domestic labor and anticipation. Part of the Revolution is a Dinner Party series, the installation remains in a state of flux, guided by an absent hostess who communicates through print manuals and audio announcements. Visitors encounter changing scenarios and instructions—announced by posters—where the simple acts of setting a table or preparing a meal are reframed as political and emotional gestures.

Medium: Installation, print, textile, audio, found objects, and community engagement.

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Revolution is a Dinner Party

This solo exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center’s Glass Gallery reclaims the domestic sphere as a site of political and social inquiry. By centering the table as a stage for both intimacy and diplomacy, the project bridges the personal and the political through site-specific installation and community programming. Drawing on the contrasting legacies of the mythological Circe and the historical Eleanor Roosevelt, the work uses the language of hosting to navigate the complexities of identity, memory and displacement. Through salvaged ceramics, archival fragments, and participatory sessions, the exhibition examines how everyday rituals—acts of gathering and sharing—can serve as catalysts for social connection.

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Medium: Site-specific installation, salvaged ceramics, archival materials, textiles, performance, and participatory events.

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200 Main Street

30F mural installation created as a participatory community project that explores the collective meaning of "home." Residents of Los Altos City contributed objects, photographs, and personal insights to shape a narrative of local identity and domestic life.

By integrating these contemporary contributions with historical items and archival imagery from local museums, the project culminated in a 30-foot long photographic mural. Installed on a public wall at 200 Main Street in Los Altos, California, the composition transforms a city surface into a communal interior, blurring the lines between public space and private history.

200 Main Street, Los Altos, CA
Site-specific photographic mural (30 feet)
Commissioned by Arts Los Altos
Funded by Los Altos Rotary Club

Read more: Everyday life becomes history in new mural celebrating Los Altos

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One Home Only [Iterations]

One Home Only [Iterations] is a three-part, site-specific installation and performance series exploring the evolving concept of "home, in the shadow of pandemic closures and sheltering mandates. Utilizing the exterior of a public building as both canvas and stage, the work integrates visual installations with live interventions to examine domesticity, tension, physical and spatial boundaries over the period of three weeks.

Part I: Spoken-word response to the internal contradictions of home, performed by the author.
Part II: Solo cello performance utilizing improvisation and silence to mirror the fragmentation of memory and place.
Part III: Dance-based activation of a fragmented visual landscape, where two dancers navigate the emotional and physical thresholds of shared space.

Artwork and art curation Martha Sakellariou

Jennifer Lee (spoken word), Gabi Li (Cello), Allegra Bautista, Anna Greenberg Gold (Dance) choreographed by Kristin Damrow, Lauren Daniluk (production), Steve Schecter (camera)

The project was funded by the Palo Alto Public Art Program and supported by the Rinconada Library, May 2021

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Home Facades

belgian linen