HOME
Group Exhibition on the theme of Home. Home as a collection of rooms, fragments that come together to form a habitat.
"Home" Exhibition
Home relates to belonging and returning. Home is a paradox: when you are at home you long to escape, and when you are separated from home you yearn to return. Home lies between these constantly changing conditions of desire and aversion.
As opposed to a house, a home is not physical, it is metaphysical entity; it condenses feelings of home through metaphors and associations. Home is a state of mind, some people find home comfortable while others can’t bear it.
Home has always related to discovering and searching, wondering and dreaming; a moving process, that is very independent and embodies a pursuit of knowledge. All too often home is understood as a static, rooted and permanent idea, like a building, where mass and physicality are unquestionable. Such rigid readings have always made me uncomfortable: they equate presence as the sole existence of “home” and disregard the oneric and poetic, the ever changing, volatile, moving and mutating “home”.
The home is a permanent manifestation of dwelling, the closest embodiment of a complete building, the house where we live. Home is a concept and an ideal, an interpretation of where we have culturally and socially lived, from our native country to our parent’s house, it has always been associated with belonging.
In this exhibition I want to focus on the concept of home as a collection of rooms. Rooms are the inner organs of a home; they are the places we inhabit. We eat in the kitchen, we read in the bedroom, we shower in the bathroom, every action we perform in a home takes place in a room.
