Where Memory Lives

Where Memory Lives is a semester-long student public art initiative organized jointly by the Arts Administration and the Sculpture Department at UVA, in partnership with The Fralin Museum and sponsored by the Vice Provost for the Arts. The project explores how memory is held and activated through land, body, materiality, and performance — questions that carry particular weight here at UVA.

Working across expanded sculpture, performance, material studies, and curation, and in conversation with faculty and visiting artists from drama, religious studies, sociology, and visual art, students have spent the semester gathering soil from sites of personal and collective significance and using collected soil and other materials to create site-specific sculptures that ask how memory lives in stories, objects, and place.