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A complex project with a complicated genesis, Opara’s Room 516-II was initially developed in response to an assignment by Yale Graduate School of Design professor Sheila de Bretteville. The work incorporates artworks by and biographical information on classmate Do-Ho Suh, and consists of a layering of Opara’s interactive gloss of Suh’s work and life onto a large Suh sculptural installation. The resulting amalgam of canvas, light, zippers, sound, and remote-controlled projections refers to multiple modes of domesticity, foreignness, and integrity; viewers can also lounge comfortably inside the work.