The Mission District remains a hotly debated locale — a place that some people call hip, some people call home, and some people just call all sorts of nasty names — thanks to the give-and-take of gentrification. No better spot in the city, then, for an alternative art exhibit called “Home Is Something I Carry with Me,” which explores the concept of "home" through a novel curatorial conceit. For a couple of days, two local houses will be taken over by art, with individual rooms acting as galleries organized around specific themes like shelter, migration, and neighborhood identities. The show features work by more than 40 artists, including a set of shadow-box dioramas called Homes for the Homies created by Cindy De Losa (populated, naturally, with Homies dolls and photographs of 24th Street) and Klea McKenna's haunting water-damaged slide projections of her grandparents' Mexican honeymoon. Curator Adrienne Skye Roberts has been working on the show for about a year, and drew inspiration from the current rash of foreclosures, rapid development, and the threat of rent control repeals. A showing of seven short films (Sept. 4 at 9 p.m.) accompanies the exhibit, taking place in the backyard of a third home. “Home Is Something I Carry with Me” also runs at 3352 24th St. (at Bartlett), S.F.
Fri., Sept. 4, 4 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 5, noon, 2009
