Featured Member Exhibition: Brandom Terres-Sanchez
July 18 – September 30, 2025
Featured Member Exhibition: Brandom Terres-Sanchez (He/They)
The innate feeling of comfort is what draws us in, but the uncanny replication of home is what keeps us out. My work derives from this longing and yearning of the home, and the memories associated with it. This collection of work is focusing on the exterior of my home, these hard and rigid exteriors are forms of protection that often hold memories themselves. The exterior of a home is something that I often find myself looking at. I often find myself viewing my own home from an outside perspective almost becoming a trespasser to a home that I grew up in. I wanted there to be a distance between the home and the viewer and myself. This is done by stripping the image of family away but keeping impact present which emphasizes the feeling of absence and presence of said family. The home is meant to feel lived in, the rust and scuffs are visual manifestations of those memories. The additional elements are created with the idea of limitation and protection. Limiting what the viewer is allowed to see and experience as a way of preservation, home is a space that physically shelters us, and I want to protect it in return by limiting access to the viewer. The creation of a liminal space allows us to feel the temporal aspect of home, home is a space that is bound by time. It changes and evolves even if we don’t. I’m drawn to the comfort I once felt from my home but when faced with the real thing I feel this disconnect from what I once felt. I’m attempting to revitalize that home we once knew by recreating memories that provided me comfort, but now only remind me of what was lost. The viewer is meant to feel the absence and presence of family throughout the collection. Pain and joy are often intertwined especially when it comes to this complicated word “Home”.
