‘Strange house we must keep and fill.

House that eats and pleads and kills.

House on legs. House on fire. House infested 

With desire. Haunted house. Lonely house.’ - Tracy K. Smith

On view at No Place Gallery from May 14, 2022 - July 7, 2022

‘Heavy as Heaven’ contemplates the ways in which the places we call home speak their memory, the architecture of nostalgia, and the consequences of tying so much of ourselves to the ephemeral. The work sees Granger, alongside his collaborators, returning to his grandmother's, who passed away in 2017, home in Cleveland to reconcile with the measurements of time contained within its walls. In her absence, many of the objects she held dear— photos arranged like altar pieces, good plates that had never been used, unfinished to-do lists & crosswords, remain unmoved, in stasis, holding so much of who she was, much like the home itself. If homes hold their memories like lines in a hand or marks on a body, to what extent do they hold us? Granger uses this question to guide the construction of his own house within the espace, a home stitched together from the bones of previous homes wherein the titular three channel film plays. 

Link to the Heavy as Heaven film available upon request

Images by Jake Holler