Germane Barnes

“It’s like an endurance test,” she said. “If you made it through, we’ll give you a badge.”

“Everyone understands space, even if they don’t have a degree in architecture.”

Liz Gálvez focused on the act of “Making House”, both the gendered labors implied by the term, but also the technical systems that enable inhabitation. Reflecting on spaces of Black domesticity, like porches and stoops, Germane Barnes sees these as narrative spaces, in the sense that stories are told within the space but also by the spatial arrangement itself.