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Edra Soto (b. 1971)
La Casa de Todos | Everyone’s Home, 2024/reworked 2026
Painted and laser cut sintra panels, aluminum rods
8 x 8 ft. (each)
Courtesy of the artist
About
Edra Soto’s La Casa de Todos invites us to celebrate the concept of home. Composed of three large sculptural cubes, these spaces encourage gathering and celebration. The designs of each panel allude to Puerto Rican vernacular architecture with motifs of rejas (wrought iron screens) and quiebrasoles (decorative concrete blocks). The artwork forms a liminal space between inside and outside, belonging and othering, private and public. It mimics the distinctive marquesinas (porches) of working-class Puerto Rican residences, a space that bridges the intimacy of the home and the surrounding community.
To create this sculptural public space, Soto began with real-life photographs and site-specific research. The resulting work honors the craftsmanship of functional iron screens, while transforming familiar motifs into spaces that exist at the intersection of place-making, cultural heritage, and diasporic recognition.
By inviting us to stay, play, and dance within these pavilions, Soto hopes we can see and feel the concerns and joys of Puerto Rican people. For her, architecture is a civic language, one that shelters memory, activates belonging, and becomes a form of care. Her work is led by this question, “How do you represent migration, the humanity of migration, and the humanity in architecture?”
Location
This work is on display on the left side of the Italianate Garden.
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