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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Maria Möller
8/13 – 10/08/2016

24 Hour Liminal
and
Far to Go
 
​Over the course of several stays at the Christiana Motel, conceptual artist and photographer Maria Möller explored what is left behind after check-out in the intimate but transitory space of a motel room.

At Street Road, a 20-minute drive from the motel, 24 Hour Liminal imprints the gallery space with these images of anonymous but repetitively-inhabited rooms, reflecting on the narrowly bordered intersections of privacy, intimacy, security, transit, and home. Placed amidst these images, a bed and nightstand recreates the Christiana Motel at Street Road: each weekend during the exhibition, a single guest will be invited to stay. Their subsequent reflections on this experience of public solitude will be layered onto the exhibition incrementally.
 
Far to Go, a companion piece at the Christiana Motel, displays snapshots of rooms where Möller has stayed while travelling, taken over the past 15 years. One snapshot, accompanied by a short travel narrative, will be displayed in each room of the motel, with the complete series available as a limited edition brochure at the motel’s front desk.
 
Philadelphia-based, but a lifelong traveller, Möller has laid her head in liminal spaces from India to Cambodia to Colombia to Europe to all around the USA. Her socially-engaged work distills narrative from fact and interprets how place can reflect our innermost longings and our collective hopes. Recent projects include CBD (Chinese Business District), a photographic installation that inserted visual memory into the built environment of what was once New Orleans' Chinatown, and 75º West/75º Oeste, an on-going collaborative project that exchanges ideas and knowledge, art and objects between the ​citizens of Philadelphia and Medellín, Colombia.

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Street Road HOURS
Autumn 2024 hours info: Our hours are currently by appointment, in person or virtually. 
We can accommodate most times, given advance notice. 
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Little Free Library - Fall 2024 HOURS
Mondays 6-9pm
Wednesdays 6-9pm
Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.
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Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
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to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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