Ensembles

 

For the occasion of showing a work at the Art Deco house Atelier Arthur Rogiers, I scanned the house with my camera. Subsequently I filmed my mother in my childhood home. Bringing together both houses and women in a split screen, the work explores the meaning and connotation of objects, objects and time, decoration, organisation of space and home.

Human beings and objects are bound together in a collusion in which the objects take on a certain density, an emotional value – what might be called a ‘presence’. What gives the houses of our childhood such depth and resonance in memory is clearly this complex structure of interiority, and the objects within it serve for us as boundary markers of the symbolic configuration known as home.
– Jean Baudrillard, The system of objects