Anti-lonely House

I made this piece with my mum who was a self-taught conceptual artist. I have always been interested in creativity that fails to find an outlet, or sits and waits for its time to come. She designed an ideal home that she wanted to live in as she became older, that she called an ‘anti-lonely house’.

The work consists of the drawing that my Mum had made and a video of her talking to me about the project. I have always felt that architecture should be designed with its future inhabitants involved, and not be all about looks. I have made a lot of with other people who could easily have called themselves artists but didn’t.

This work evolved from an invitation to take part in an exhibition about architecture in 2001. The exhibition was called ‘Demonstration room: ideal house‘ part of  THE BIG SHOW: a series of exhibitions on globalisation conceived by Wim Peeters. This piece toured to Antwerp, Caracas and New York. With: Francis Alÿs (MEX/BEL) Carla Arocha (US/VEN) Anna Best (UK) Stefan Bruggeman (MEX) Mariana Bunimov (VEN) Minerva Cuevas (MEX) Stan Douglas (CAN) José Gabriel Fernández (VEN) Alicia Framis (NL/ESP) Carlos Garaicoa (CUBA) Alexander Gerdel (VEN) Liam Gillick (UK) Dan Graham (USA) Jeanne Van Heeswijk (NL) Jose Antonio Hernández-Diez (VEN) Proyecto Incidental (MEX) Gabriel Kuri (MEX) Atelier Van Lieshout (NL) Diana López (VEN) Mauricio Lupini (VEN) Rita McBride (USA) Carlos Julio Molina (VEN) Ernesto Neto (BRA) Claudio Perna (VEN) Paul Ramirez-Jonas (USA) Karin Schneider (BRA/USA) Javier Téllez (VEN) Meyer Vaisman (VEN) Sergio Vega (ARG/USA)

Date

2001

Curators

THE BIG SHOW was organized by the NICC in collaboration with the Museum for African Art in New York, Jesus Fuenmayor and Julieta Gonzalez (Museo Otero) in Caracas

Media

Video

Drawings

Cardboard Model

Text

Credits

Gemma Nesbitt

Julieta Gonzalez

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