At My Place Opening Reception

At My Place is an exhibition that captures our experiences at Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh within the context of our home located at 410 N Craig St. We wanted to use a variety of media, from film and textiles to miniatures and food, to demonstrate how we have captured these fleeting moments as foundational in our transition into young adults. By providing an intimate look into our home and how it has facilitated a variety of memories, we hope to communicate the ways in which a space can hope to communicate the ways in which a space can become one’s familiarity and safety in moments of firsts. 

Many of the experiences we have created in our home have had a creative element involved such as dinners with specific themes and curated food art, music and DJing, and themed celebrations of holidays, events, and life milestones. Between drunk and sober chatter, our house has facilitated the grime and glamour of our youth spent together in this city in Pennsylvania. 

When we moved into a converted automobile factory in 2022, we knew it was a space that called for more than a simple dwelling; it craved interaction and intervention. For the past two years, we have filled this space with friends, music, food, noise, a dog, and cheap second-hand furniture. As we become ready to part ways, both with our space and each other, we are looking to honor the home that has cradled and defined our terrible (twenty) twos.

With nostalgia at the core of this project, we view this as a way of critially reflecting on how our experiences at CMU have changed us as individuals, ans where we have created a family away from home.