UCLA student’s art exhibit to question idea of home, support migrants
Fifth-year art student Gabriela Freid intends to support migrant justice nonprofits through her exhibition “Responding in Numbers.” The project is a reimagining of Lucy R. Lippard’s initial exhibit, “Curating by Numbers.”
“Responding in Numbers” will ask members of AOL and ASMIE the question, “What is Home?” Freid said their responses, recorded on notecards, will be sold to help support the two nonprofits. (Photo Illustration by Ashley Kenney/Photo editor and Jaelen Cruz/Daily Bruin) "Gabriela Freid intends to prove home can be anything imaginable.
The fifth-year art student is currently developing a reimagining of Lucy R. Lippard’s exhibition “Curating by Numbers” to be showcased in September. Unlike Lippard’s traveling exhibition, Freid’s modern version, “Responding in Numbers,” will ask the question “What is home?” The answers can vary greatly, Freid said, including categories such as cultures, smells and feelings. The exhibition’s postcards will be sold in print shops in Los Angeles, New York and online. Freid said these sales will help provide assistance for migrants and asylum seekers via two nonprofit organizations, Al Otro Lado and Association de Solidarité avec les Mineurs Isolés Étranger.
“(‘Responding in Numbers’) would be incredible to do now, in the pandemic, when art spaces or places for collective dialogue are not accessible,” Freid said. “This would just be a really great way to internationally involve people in talking about one question and conceptualizing it.”
Freid said she thought of the idea when she was helping her mother clean her house and found a stack of index cards from the “Curating by Numbers” exhibition, left over from her mother’s previous involvement in housing Lippard’s exhibit. To put her own twist, Freid said the purpose of her modern exhibition is to request more than 100 submissions from members of AOL and ASMIE to answer “What is home?” with whatever content they feel represents that word. These postcards will then be displayed on a Wikipedia-like website Freid said she is creating and sold at print shops and through PDF purchases." — Brandon Sanchez, Jun. 6, 2021
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