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'Casa Tomada' is the third installment in SITE Santa Fe's re-imagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. The exhibition features 23 artists from eight countries and ten new commissions. The title of SITElines.2018 references Argentine writer Julio Cortázar's 1946 short story "Casa tomada" (House Taken Over), which follows two shut-in siblings devoted to the care of their ancestral home. As a mysterious and unnamed presence begins to occupy parts of the house, they are eventually forced out onto the street without any material possessions. The exhibition plays off the ambiguities of this story, addressing the reciprocal and complex relationship between the ones who stay and the ones who leave, and those that belong and those that are outliers. Exhibition: Site Santa Fe, USA (03.08.2018-06.01.2019).