LEVITT GARDENS

2025

"Levitt Gardens" is a project realized through sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing to investigate the moral ambiguities inherent in spatial division and use. It investigates the complex dichotomies between private and public spaces, and between protection and invasion.

Rooted in research on the development of suburbia by the Levitt brothers in 1950s America, the project offers a critical perspective on the post-World War II propaganda that promoted capitalism and individualism. This era’s societal shift prioritized personal benefit, shaping both American and Mexican societies, among many others. The archetype of the single-family home—set outside urban centers with private lawns, fences, and microcosms—became an aspirational symbol, separate from wider community networks. Within this framework, the defense of personal property and space, often associated with traditional masculine roles of protection, echoes rhetoric of preemptive war and interventionism, raising questions about the deeper moral meanings of “protection” in both domestic and military contexts.