Pepόn Osorio, a Latino artist who is best known for his large-scale installations, has conceived of Resting Stops to travel from home to home in Nepal in 2012.[break]
The project calls out to community residents to participate in the sharing of life stories, personal experiences, and neighborhood histories through food.
Effectively, the project consists of objects of daily use such as Tiffin boxes, drinking cups, among other things, and empty rice sacks. The project urges local families to participate in this project by living with the artwork at their home for a week.
The residents hosting the work become temporary owners or stewards of the artwork and can also organize their own “opening” and talk-back sessions.
Osorio mentions that it gives him great satisfaction to get the whole community together in his artworks to give them the opportunity to critically redefine the ideas of ownership, art-making, and social responsibility.
The Resting Stops was conceptualized on the basis of a collective process that represents the intersection of the histories, interests and identities of many local participants, individuals, families and art students of The School of Arts of Kathmandu University (KU).
Resting Stops, coordinated by Sujan Chitrakar, academic coordinator of KU, was done in collaboration with seven other students from KU, Centre for Art and Design.
The project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, and the Bronx Museum of Arts, and welcomes every household interested in keeping the artwork in their living quarters for a week of conversations, curiosity and shared efforts by family members and guests.
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