Sandra de la Loza, 2019 FOCA Fellow Completes a 2019 LACE Summer Residency Sandra de la Loza, has just completed a LACE Summer Residency in Hollywood. “In To Oblivion: The Speculator’s Eden, de Loza creates a portal…

Sandra de la Loza, 2019 FOCA Fellow, Completes a 2019 LACE Summer Residency

Sandra de la Loza, has just completed a LACE Summer Residency in Hollywood. “In To Oblivion: The Speculator’s Eden, de Loza created a portal inside LACE’s main gallery to \”transport us into a ‘disturbance zone’ a ghostly and haunted space that unveils fragmented stories of the land we call Los Angeles. In excavating the past, unsettling glimpses of the city of the future surface via an immersive installation comprised of an archive of shadows, dematerialized artifacts, performative poems, and spectral ruins and stereoscopes.

De la Loza’s installation is based on long term research that investigates the history of transportation infrastructure and its impact on past, present, and future landscapes. Centered around the Los Angeles transit system, the artist evokes the final ride of a Pacific Electric car in 1955, which carried a banner reading “To Oblivion” before the entire system was dismantled and supplanted by a new freeway structure during the postwar era. It was a moment of dramatic change to the Los Angeles landscape and an exacerbation of the struggles of working-class communities.”

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Image courtesy of the artist.