home: an installation

THE TEMPORARY HOUSE OF THE IMAGE

"A house may be the first thing one paints following the figure of one's parents. [...] Artemis Alcalay has managed to house her overall work in this archetypal image.

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Painted, photographed, upholstered, framed, bound, packaged, wrapped, covered with canvas, cloth, photo paper, yarns, rugs, embroidery, with paper-pulp limbs functioning as votive offerings, these houses whose interior one can only guess are situated in the inner space of a gallery; a green wall to wall carpet-green grass turns this into exterior space while generating a sense of homely warmth. The standardized surface of her houses becomes her personal canvas through which the artist takes a head-on approach to her entire work."

Elizabeth Plessa