From weapon making to shopping

From “Work in Progress,’’ by Chantal Zakari, at Kingston Gallery, Boston, Oct. 21-Nov. 15.

The show explores, says the gallery, “the intertwined histories of the Watertown Arsenal, of the buildings and especially of the people who worked there. It is a visual metaphor of the overlap of the past history infused with the idea of war and the present transformation of the campus into a large shopping mall. The installation at Kingston Gallery has several components, including works on walls, video projections and an artist’s publication that will be concurrently distributed at the new arsenal.’’

See www.kingstongallery.com

The arsenal, on the north side of the Charles River, was operated from 1816 to 1968.

1919 map of the Watertown Arsenal

Building #71 at the arsenal