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Home Sweet Home

2006
Installation at N & n Gallery, Budapest Hungary

The installation defines and creates architectural space, built from words, most of them misogynist.

Large translucent papers, back-lit and in glass, have been pulp painted with texts from historical figures, with their informed perspectives on women. These sheets lean against the wall, covered in sections of wallpaper. The wallpaper design is manipulated text of multicultural proverbs that focus on the woman in the home. They were produced by diazine printing in three different shops to create a range of blue/purples.

On the facing wall is a series called “Home Work”, which depict imagined house plans, all layered with more proverbs. Each saying is located in the appropriate room of the house that is referred to by that text. Between the two areas are pedestals with vintage industrial bobbins holding paper thread made with additional proverbs printed on them.

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