During her 2023 residency at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia-based artist Krista Svalbonas expanded her practice to further investigate architecture’s relationship to cultural identity, ideas of home, and migration. Svalbonas’ cultural background as an ethnically Latvian/Lithuanian artist informs this interest. Her connection to this history has made Svalbonas acutely aware of the impact of politics on architecture and, in turn, on a people’s daily lived experience. This exhibition highlights several recent bodies of work focusing on the history of the Baltic states surrounding WWII.
