Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place

Emerging from her ongoing project Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place, Chloë Bass presented a film and series of prints at Mesa Home, as well as an intervention into the Benton Park West newsletter. Obligation To Others Holds Me In My Place is a poetic investigation of the family format, particularly focusing on American mixed race families. The project is an unfolding, multiform family album that serves to question the linear narrative of racial progress. Within the home goods store Mesa Home, Bass created a space of uneven domesticity, intimacy, and celebration to suggest the profound and everyday nature of interracial families.