MOCA: There goes the neighborhood

Past exhibition: There Goes the Neighborhood explores the evolution of communities here and abroad. The exhibition focuses on how architecture and landscape embody a neighborhood's past, present, and potential future. The work on view examines places amid growth or decline, sites that hover somewhere between construction, deterioration, and renewal. The artists reveal how physical sites symbolize the human experience of change, whether simple or complex, invited or forced. Linking actual and anticipated shifts in communities across the globe, There Goes the Neighborhood emphasizes the evolving structures and compositions of neighborhoods in the twenty-first century.

The exhibition features artists from different regions and cultures who are responding to shifts in communities around the world. Some focus on particular sites. Representing blighted neighborhoods in New Orleans, Cleveland, and Leipzig, the works of Willie Birch, Amy Casey, and Clemens von Wedemeyer uncover political issues embedded in the architecture of these places. Eva Struble and Dionsio Gonzàlez focus on marginalized Spanish, Brazilian, and Vietnamese communities and their complex relationships within their regions. Leslie Grant and Nina Pessin-Whedbee, with support from Carolyn Strauss of slowLAB and artistic contribution by Leah Beeferman, examine the Domino Sugar Factory and its evolving neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.