Harvard Ed Portal: Eden Attar, Bohio (home)

ArtLab welcomes Eden Attar as part of our collaboration with the Harvard Ed Portal Artist Pipeline. This new program supports artists from diverse backgrounds and mediums who live and/or work in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood.

Eden’s ArtLab project, Bohio (home), explores narratives of Antillean colonization, diaspora, and memory through an art installation, which activates the small wooden “cubby” lockers at ArtLab. Bohio features manifestations of zemí’no, Taino ancestor spirits and deities, who take the form of floral and light installations, puppets, and foodstuffs. 

Eden Attar is a Dominican-American artist, educator, and researcher who creates tiny utopian moments. Eden’s past work includes the St. Louis smolnet, a publicly accessible digital installation that challenges the centralization and commercialization of the web, and Moon Swap, an educational space for unlearning mindsets of scarcity and transactionality, held in outdoor spaces in Boston each full moon. Eden works as a welding instructor and mutual aid organizer at Artisans Asylum, a makerspace in Allston.