LOIZA

Chicago based artist Dzine installation LOIZA for the Library Street Collective, Detroit 2017

The exhibit is inspired by Puerto Rico's Barrio Loiza, a place the community gathers around food-vending roadside kiosks.
“When visitors walk through the passageway of Loiza, the hope is when you enter the environment, you're immediately transported to another place and time. You forget for a moment about the world around you and become immersed in the present moment. More importantly, as an artist who incorporates a social practice component within my studio practice, it’s important for me to recreate ideas of memory that have personally created a sense of community and diaspora that exists independently of our smart
phones, and create conversation,” Rolón said in a press release.

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