The Imperfecta Gallery is proud to present Always Coming Home, a site-responsive installation about what signifies home. This installation was created exclusively for Imperfecta’s installation space by local artist Julie Rall. Always Coming Home is a celebration of Portland’s local places. Using materials such as salt, fabric, retired globes, paper, sticks, and found objects, Rall constructed an immersive environment that reflects the quiet significance of the everyday, leveraging a unique aesthetic that illustrates the layered histories that circulate through human hands and habitats.
The title of the installation references Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, a text that informed the installation’s inquiries into place, belonging, and cyclical return. Rather than illustrating Le Guin’s narrative, Rall engages its philosophical undercurrents, inviting viewers to consider what it means to inhabit the Earth with attentiveness and reciprocity.
Always Coming Home offers a sense of place and a celebration of home.
The show debuts on July 2, with an Opening Reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
The artist will give a free artist talk on July 11 at 2 p.m.