DREAM FARM COMMONS
MARGO MAJEWSKA
GENIUS LOCI
RESIDENCY JULY 8-AUGUST 1
Opening August 1, 4-7PM
During July Margo Majewskw inhabited the main gallery space to undertake an investigative residency culminating in a site-specific multimedia installation that explored the spirit of place through light, materiality, ecology, and memory. Inspired by the remarkable regeneration of Big Basin Redwoods State Park following the 2020 Fire, the project reflected on cycles of loss, resilience, and renewal.
Drawing from the forest's capacity to recover and transform, the installation invited the audience to consider the landscape as a living archive—holding traces of memory, time, and our evolving relationship with the natural world. Light served as both material and metaphor, revealing shifting boundaries between interior and exterior, presence and absence, permanence and change. Through an interplay of light, shadow, sound, and material, Genius Loci will invited viewers into a contemplative environment that encourages attentive looking and deep listening.
The installation created space to reflect on how landscapes shape our understanding of memory, belonging, resilience, and our connection to the living world. Rather than working toward a predetermined outcome, Majewska remained open to experimentation and site-led transformation, allowing unpredictability itself to become a generative method.