Guest Rooms

“Unheimlich is the name for everything that ought to have remained hidden and secret… and has become visible.” F. W. J. von Schelling, [in:] Daniel Sanders, Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, (1860, volume I), Leipzig This project was for me a way to explore space once alive, today transformed into a museum showpiece accessible for the visitors only through the sense of sight. Processed into images, they separate themselves from their original function, becoming a radical version of obje trouvé. Introducing amorphous item; alien, yet based on the coloristic reference, I wanted to deconstruct the seeming unity of the interiors and question their title “hospitality”. For me, the encounter of what is defined and familiar with what is disturbing and cognitively unstable, constitutes a specifically fascinating issue. [excerpt / work in progress]