KENZ CANNON


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Please Let Me In

Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts | Boston, MA
August 6 - September 10, 2022

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PLEASE LET ME IN is a multimedia installation of video, photo, and object work that crystallizes as an interactive experience, urging gallery-goers to excavate and co-create the exhibition’s narrative. A living bedroom installed deep in the gallery is an open invitation to explore an unknown stranger’s most intimate space—an opportunity to discover details hidden within the work and to reckon with what those discoveries might reveal. Beyond the bedroom emanates the detritus of fantasy and nightmares--- large scale projections of warped home interiors immerse you in the realm of the Other; found object creations imbue the space with a sense of haunted history; fairy houses made of scavenged bits of earth and trash evidence an idyllic fairytale in a state of apocalypse.

PLEASE LET ME IN is a piece of object-spatial theatre, an environmental performance in which gallery-goers become a character in the sticky world of existential mystery constructed by Cannon and Rubio, gathering the threads between self and divine, intimate and unknowable, bedroom and black hole.

M’Kenzy Cannon: PLEASE LET ME IN is the fourth exhibition in the 1:1 Curatorial Initiative series presented in the Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts. Each exhibition in this series presents a collaborative project between one curator and one artist, and either introduces a new artist or highlights a new aspect of a more experienced artist.

Public Programs:

  1. Desire Path, a sonic walk by Kelly Chen
  2. Romancing the Virtual Domestic, an object-oriented poetry workshop by Annie Martin

Press:




Untitled (I have a solid sense of self) (2021)
Found objects, found images, mod podge

Jessica’s Scroll (2022)
untreated canvas, sharpie
Untitled (2022)
Solder,scavenged metal debris 
Jessica’s Scroll (2022) [detail]
untreated canvas, sharpie
The Door (2021) & Dreamhouse Scroll (2022)
discarded antique door, injet print on photo paper & inkjet print on photo paper (respectively)
Jessica’s Scroll (2022) [detail]
untreated canvas, sharpie
Dreamhouse scroll (2022)
inkjet print on photo paper
Untitled (fairy portal?) (2022)
found object, embroidery needle, hat pin, solder, unidentified metal debris 
Untitled (fairy portal?) (2022) [detail]
found object, embroidery needle, hat pin, solder, unidentified metal debris 
Affirmations (2022)
Discarded stove, empty glass, pink cocktail umbrella, video projection
Untitled (yard) (2022) [detail]
Mulch, chicken wire, scrap metal, found objects, solder, dried flowers
Untitled (coffee table) (2022)
Found objects, found photographs, coffee table (interactive)
Untitled (yard) (2022)
Mulch, chicken wire, scrap metal, found objects, solder, dried flowers
Untitled (shelf 1) (2022)
Found objects & photographs (interactive)
Untitled (shelf 2) (2022)
Found objects & photographs (interactive)
Untitled (shelf 3) (2022)
Found objects & photographs (interactive)
Affirmations (2022)
Discarded stove, empty glass, pink cocktail umbrella, video projection
Untitled (2022)
Gravel
Affirmations (2022)
Discarded stove, empty glass, pink cocktail umbrella, video projection
Untitled (mobile) (2022)
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line
Untitled (mobile) (2022) [detail]
Found photographs, solder, fishing line

INTRUDER is a performance video piece made in 2022 for Please Let Me In. The primary video, linked below, was played on a staggered loop across two adjoined monitors over a pile of mulch. Across the gallery space, smaller monitors played additional footage of the intruder’s journey and B roll of the home and surrounding woods.


Affirmations is a multimedia installation for Please Let Me In. The below video was projected on loop above a stove.



Scanned clear leader with taped flowers and grass. Projected above the Yard installation for Please Let Me In. 




Other Homes is an archive of photographs of home interiors sourced from Zillow and Craigslist. With aid and support from friend and artist June Curry, these photos have been run through an AI image processing/altering technology using key words related to the themes of Please Let Me In. These AI warpings imbue a dream/nightmare quality to the familiar, uncanny, and voyeuristic experience of online house-shopping.


This slideshow was shown on loop as a part of Please Let Me In at Boston’s Center for the Arts in 2022.