Home Less Home
Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris 2012
The Agents Associés in Paris organized a group exhibition around the theme of ‘Maison & Image.’ What images does a home evoke? Around this idea, several artists and designers worked on visual proposals. Invited to take part in the event, I chose to focus on those who do not have a home. ‘Home Less Home’ plays on the familiar phrase ‘Home Sweet Home ‘to highlight that nowadays having a roof over one’s head is not a privilege shared by everyone.
Éric Chevillard is one of my favorite contemporary French writers. I had already worked with his texts for my graduation project. For this series of typographic posters, I contacted him to ask for permission to work from four of his texts taken from his blog L’Autofictif. These four texts, patiently selected from his abundant body of work, are a kind of absurd and humorous reflections that question the protective notion of home.
Texts by Éric Chevillard (l’Autofictif).
I was wrong to wash my windows, outside, it's even dirtier.
We closed them tightly, but night enters in through the slits of the shutters.
I have the most beautiful house in the village, from each of its windows a flame emerges.
At the end of this pebbles path, a crowd of Hop-o'-My-Thumbs.
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