Home / House

2024 - ongoing
plaster, cart, wood
This project investigates the relationship between ’home’ and ’house’ as often conflated but disparate concepts. English offers two distinct words to describe an otherwise similar space. However, a dwellings physical appearance is irrelevant to the choice of word. It is the feeling that it gives - of warmth, of chill, of safety, or of necessity. There is a security in the knowing around ’home’ and a distrust in the word ’house’. I was born and raised in Gramsh, Albania and since 2014 I have been living away from my birth ’home’. I have changed the ’house’ many times, between Tirana, Florence and Verona. This made my ’houses’ always temporary in nature - which comes with it worry and unease. And even if I managed to stay for a longer period, it did not guarantee that it turned into my ’home’. With every move, being restricted by what my two hands could carry and the number of trips I was willing to take, I was forced to choose the most essential of things - those things that felt like ’home’ - and leave the rest behind. Every dislocation came with boxes and objects.