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My work for the Biennial is called "Dream Houses of People Who Live with Their Parents".
What I did for it was, I interviewed various people in Manila who are in their twenties who still live with their parents. I asked them to draw their dream houses on a card. I also asked them to describe in words what their dream houses would be. These cards are now installed on the floor together with red candlestick figures, to evoke a housing estate or small town.
On the walls I blew up these drawings on tracing paper, the kind we use for architectural buildings or plans. The candle figures are meant to give a relation between dreams and prays. So these are people who dream and also pray; they want to have a house of their own. There are also some broken pieces symbolizing broken dreams.
When I conceived this piece I was aware of the Biennial's theme of communication and also the relation with architecture interested me. I'm an artist and also an architect by profession.
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Interview, photos: Gerhard Haupt & Pat Binder, Universes in Universe |
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