Abigail DeVille’s large-scale sculptures and installations are defined by her commitment to sourcing material from her environment—in this case, Harlem. In Harlem World, she assembles and manipulates a wide variety of colors and textures across the panels of the work, creating a surface so rich as to be a portal into the neighborhood, or perhaps another world. Harlem, which has undergone rapid change in recent years, is preserved in this space as a result of the almost archaeological process DeVille undertakes when collecting materials. The final work becomes a place to care for the history and memory of Harlem held within the materials.