Knock Knock, Whose Home? at The Acorn Gallery

Unfortunately, I write this as the show has already closed, because it would have been recommended if it were still open. The group show, curated by Nancy Buchanan, gathers works that find their nexus in politics and home. The show though petite in floor space was dense with works. Unlike so many gallery experiences where you feel like you could walk out the door a few seconds after walking in, Knock, Knock demands your time, with an emphasis on time based pieces. The works are not entirely activist oriented; from the personal remembrances of Amar Ravva about the implications on the physical structure of the home in a family stuck in the middle of two cultures, to the playful book of suggestions of how the US-Mexican border can be reimagined by Evelyn Serrano. There were also direct statements such as the video Lincoln Place by Laura Silagi and David Ewing, covering the evictions of the residents of a long-standing affordable housing development in Venice. The combination of these approaches left me with a reinforced sense of community activism as well as questions of what importance of home in the average life. Which for tiny little gallery crammed full to the gills of art, speaks mountains for the quality of the work included.