From left to right:
Short story house: Over a house, 2014
Painted wood, Stones, leather (house model), offset on paper (book), cast aluminum (shelf)
Short story house: House with things outside, 2014 (other room)
Painted wood, leather, yarn spool (house model), offset on paper (book), cast aluminum (shelf)
Short story house: Ballardian one, 2014
Spray painted cardboard, Plexiglas, stones
Short story house: House with things behind, 2014
Painted wood, steel wool, leather, sewing thread, foam (house model), offset on paper (book), cast aluminum (shelf)
Short story house: Trellis house, 2014
Epoxi resin, Plexiglas, metal, leather (house model), offset on paper (book), cast aluminium (shelf)
Five models of houses are exhibited on custom-made cast aluminum shelves. Each model is paired with a book containing a short story written by the artist that tells of inhabitants and events pertaining to the structure, evoking a vivid impression of each house as individual presence. The combination, without an apparent contradiction, of familiar and unfamiliar and even somewhat nonsensical elements seems to allude to the operations of dreams and their high tolerance for ambivalence.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti