“home making”
west gallery
(installation view)
on the wall: Notes on Leaving
on the floor: Bare Bones
"Of what constitutes a home? Wherein lies its gist, its essence? Perhaps it lies within the confines of its walls, in the discrete minutiae of routine, or the steady tread of its evenings. Or perhaps it is in the threads and linkages, familial and personal, that bind us to a place. For others still it is both anchor and self, both refuge and bond. The intimacies of shared lives, or a warm, bright light in strange lands.
Isha Naguiat, Pin Calacal, and Nicole Tee reconsider notions of home in Home Making , bringing to the fore personal significations beyond common tropes. While at times alluding to home’s more traditional conceptions– of the private and the feminine, of boundaries defined by differentiation and social mores– it attempts at new trajectories. Once divorced from the public realm, home becomes reconfigured as a site of, and the material for, creative work.
Naguiat reverts to the structure of a house to explore the tensions between home and away, of moving and residing. Why do we leave and why do we stay? And while every act of leaving implies a destination, it is the most poignant ones that hope (at times, fervently) for an act of return. For far too many of our human tragedies consist of having to leave without such hope. ..."
- JC Rosette
