Lucia Hierro: Moving Day takes its title from a historical New York tradition in which all residential leases expired simultaneously on May 1st, sending thousands of residents into the streets at once. Through sculptural boxes, containers, and enclosures, Hierro draws a parallel between this colonial-era upheaval and present-day displacement driven by rising rents and the erosion of artist spaces. The works are also deeply personal — made in the wake of losing both parents — packing becoming simultaneously literal and metaphorical, a closing of one chapter while preparing another. Diasporic tchotchkes, personal ephemera, and New York urban vernacular fill these containers like fragments of a life in motion.
