PITTSBURGH, PA.- Mattress Factory is presenting Untitled Second Floor (ONE BIG DARK ROOM) by Amanda Ross-Ho.

Untitled Second Floor (ONE BIG DARK ROOM) is a 75% scale model replicating the second floor of Ross-Ho's Chicago childhood home. Using memory, hyperbole, duration, and myth-making to register loss and comprehension, this installation is the most recent in an ongoing body of work using archival research as material and framework.

In the late ‘70s to early ‘80s the artist's mother, Laurel M. Ross, produced a series of photographs looking inward at the densely adorned rooms of their home. Treating these images like continuity shots used for film production, Ross-Ho replicates the home as a set, aided by her own recollection and architectural details sourced from an online Zillow listing. The impossibility of stable translation between these three corrupted and incomplete sources turns the home into an apparatus for staging new interpretations.

“It's not like I have to strain to remember this house,” says Ross-Ho. “But I can't recount every single thing. Artistically, I'm withholding and I'm curating and I'm selecting so that there is a new monument to this thing that is not the broken thing that I've inherited, but the broken thing I made.”





Untitled Demolition (HYPHEN), 2026-2027
Performances repeated at scheduled intervals

Periodically during the run of Untitled Second Floor (ONE BIG DARK ROOM), Ross-Ho will perform Untitled Demolition (HYPHEN), in which she repeatedly demolishes and rebuilds the wall between the front two bedrooms of the house, her parent's bedroom.

Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago in 1975. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Ross-Ho has exhibited widely in museums and galleries worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2019) Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2017); Vleeshal, Middleburg (2016); Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2015); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2014); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2011); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2010); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); among many other institutions.