OPENING RECEPTION - Midori's Dining Room with FREE Queer Family Portraits by Marcella Sanchez
Fri, Dec 05
|465 Collective
Experience the collective shattering of ceramics transformed into Midori's Dining Room, and contribute to our Awkward Queer Family Holiday Portrait Wall with a FREE Queer Family Photo (complete with holiday backdrop and wrapped boxes!) by Marcella Sanchez.
Time & Location
Dec 05, 2025, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
465 Collective , 465 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT MIDORI'S DINING ROOM
Dining Room by Midori is an Artist-in-Residence in collaboration with Queerly Complex at 465 Collective centered around her participatory installation. It will evolve over two weeks (December 4 to December 19) through activations, work days, and events.
Dining Room explores intergenerational, familial, and cultural trauma through symbolic action and community engagement. I invite participants to take part in a Shatter Party, a facilitated event in which ceramic dishes are broken, one by one, as an act of emotional release. These fragments—each a material trace of pain, grief, rage, or catharsis—are then gathered by Midori and used to construct the centerpiece of the final installation: a stylized domestic dining room, where the carpet is composed entirely of broken dishes, and the table is set with white plates long ago cracked and imperfectly repaired. Casually viewed, Dining Room appears unremarkable—a diorama of domesticity. But closer inspection reveals th…