Back to all projects     Gery Vargas is a Peruvian-American research-based artist working across time based media, sculpture and installation. Interested in exploring material histories and narratives embedded within the land and architectural vernacular, she seeks to unearth stories often lost through time and displacement, provoking questions of identity and belonging. Her work navigates grief, abjection, territories, and la lengua mestiza as she embraces the contradictions of diasporic self and mysticizes worlds of communication. 

Vargas has exhibited in NYC, Lima, Peru, Providence, RI, and Denver, CO, and has attended residencies at Materia Abierta (MX) and After School Club (DE).

Gery Vargas has received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and B.Arch from Syracuse University.  

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    TEKAKAPIMEK CONTACT STATION


    Location: Katahdin, Maine 
    Role: Lead Spatial Designer (Concept-CD)
    Status: Completed 2024
    Team: In collaboration with WESHOULDDOITALL

    Tekakapimek translates to “as far as one can see”  in Penobscot language. 

    The Tekakapimek Contact Station is the welcome building for the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Northern Maine.  Located on native land belonging to the Wabanaki people —consisting of 4 tribes: Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Nations— the contact station serves as an introduction to the traditions that have been embedded within the land for centuries. A complex project navigating policy, ownership, and historical colonialism, our main goal for the exhibition design was to holistically highlight native storytelling across the land, and waters, telling oral traditions on how waterways formed, and were used for industry, and  the importance of birch bark for canoe building.  

    Information panels and objects sit within the architectural niches (building was designed by Saunders Architecture) weaving stories around curves of the building.