Perspectives on Place

The editors introduce the varied investigations of place through archaeological inquiry and research, projects of restitution and decolonization, community-based conservation, site-specific artworks, and re-creations of artistic sites and architectural settings. 

Robert Motherwell’s first printmaking project challenges the understanding of printmaking as a mobile art form—reproducible, portable, and easily recontextualized. Instead, it should be understood by the places it depicts, the location where the pages are held, and sites of its care and display.

Artist Leong sees the haunting towers known as dīuláu, built between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Sze Yup region west of Macau and Hong Kong, as sites of community, power, and security—and as symbols of the Asian diaspora.