wear your home

Carry your home… “like a snail” would say Do-ho Suh… who presents in an interview for art:21 the Seoul-Home/LA-home project:

“The experience was about transporting space from one place to the other. A way of dealing with cultural displacement. And I don’t really get homesick, but I’ve noticed that I have this longing for this particular space and I want to recreate that space or bring that space wherever I go. So the choice of the material, which was fabric, was for many reasons. I had to make something that’s light and transportable. So something that you can fold and put in a suitcase and bring with you all the time.”

About “My town in my home” artist Mafuyu says in her Ping Mag interview that:

“I think the image or the concept of a “house” exists in everyone’s mind regardless of shape or form - as a “home”, “a cozy place” or “a space for family communication.” Therefore, the common denominator between him [Yamagata, the fashion designer with whom she collaborated] and myself might be a “house.”"

Screenshot from Mafuyu’s website: www.writtenafterwards.com

Anyway, carrying home with you is what Nomads do. Traditionally the baggage is rather bulky. Nowadays home may have shrunk to a USB key or to the skin.  More than something that you carry, home is something that you wear. The project recalls that of Sylvie Ungauer, At Home, 2000. And that of Lucy Orta, Refuge Wear City Interventions, 1993-1998:

Refuge Wear City Interventions by Lucy Orta, 1993-1998. Screenshot from Orta’s website