# Genevieve Gaignard: A Long Way From Home

URL: https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/a-long-way-from-home/
August 27 — December 7, 2020 · Online Only · Artists: Genevieve Gaignard

Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present Genevieve Gaignard’s solo exhibition “A Long Way From Home,” in conjunction with MCLA Berkshire Cultural Center’s [Gallery 51](http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/area/bcrc/mcla-gallery-51/current-exhibition/index.html). Gaignard’s exhibition, the result of her residency at MCLA, features new collage works that address the historical and political turbulence of race in America and the reemergence of Black Lives Matter protests in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“MCLA Berkshire Cultural Center’s Gallery 51 is pleased to present a new body of work by artist-in-residence Genevieve Gaignard. Her exhibition “ A Long Way From Home” draws upon the many artistic forms we have come to know from her such as collage and assemblage of found objects into an environment that plays with the senses. Known for her works that explore class, race, and gender, Gaignard renders her interior world radically exterior. She accomplishes this exteriorization by reproducing a home space to question the repetitions of the past in the present.

Home again in rural mill town Massachusetts, Gaignard is confronted with all the ways her artistic migration has changed her and how the events of the world put into perspective the contradictions of her hometown. She seeks the sights and sounds of home. She longs for another feel, another place, a different space. Gaignard longs for a different place to rest during the historical and political turbulence of COVID-19 and the reemergence of Black Lives Matter protests in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.