IN PLACE

IN PLACE is a multimedia installation that recreates a Mexican dining room inspired by households across the US/Mexico borderlands. The installation showcases borrowed, donated, or found objects from participants in Arizona. The domestic space is rendered hypervisible, becoming fully accessible to human and machine observation.

The work incorporates two contrasting video elements: one grounded in oral histories and the reenactment of participants’ memories, and the other generated in real time through a computer-vision system that tracks visitors. Together, these moving images establish a tension between lived experience and automated observation, redirecting the gaze to the bodies of those who enter the space.

Bringing together pre-recorded videos, live-generated imagery, sound, and personal objects, the installation examines domestic life as a record of collective memory. Integrating these media into a physical environment, the work collapses past recollection and real-time processing, reflecting a broader shift toward the datafication of spaces and experiences.