Arcadia Exhibitions is pleased to present “Kitty Rauth: The Mirror Room.” In their recent work, the artist uses cast sugar, often formed to replicate decorative glassware, as a poetic material to engage in conversations around classed systems of etiquette, racialized labor, and the body politics that surround the marketing and refining of the product.

For “The Mirror Room,” Rauth, a 2014 graduate of Arcadia, continues to explore these issues by focusing on the personal coincidence that Grey Towers Castle and the former William Welsh Harrison Estate, the current home of Arcadia University, were first constructed utilizing proceeds from the sugar refining industry in the late nineteenth century. Rauth will be appropriating and arranging objects and architectural forms from the well-known Cheltenham Township landmark to create a new site -specific installation for both the artist and visitors to reflect upon the dysfunctional systems of power that led to the accumulation of wealth that funded the estate’s creation.