Anti-lonely House

introduction

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 old people’s home that she wanted to live in that she called an ‘anti-lonely house’.

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description

The work consists of the drawing that my Mum had made for her ideal home and a video of her talking about the project.

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.

artists

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)

details

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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