Bronx Photos: “For Closure (Outdoors, the Bronx)”

last month, photographer Lystria Hurley took these photos of Gabriela Salazar’s public art work, “For Closure (Outdoors, the Bronx).” The piece, displayed with assistance from the Bronx River Arts Center at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road (near the West Farms Square subway station), is designed to shed light on the housing crisis. A press release about Salazar’s piece says: “The structure is a four-story house of cards assembled from locally salvaged doors. The thin sheet of the door of the door stands in as shorthand for the house, the home, and the occupant. As much an image as it is a corporeal experience, the “house of doors” looks simultaneously precarious and stable. “For Closure” enacts the fallibility of our sense of safety security, and permanence.” While taking pictures of the piece one April afternoon, Hurley said a group of high school students posed for an impromptu photo shoot, which you’ll see below.

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