31 (Un)Home, 2026
Installation
Acrylic, metal
Various sizes
31 (Un)Home is an autobiographical installation and an attempt to transform the chaos of thirty-one relocations into a rigid structure. For the artist, strict chronology and archiving became the only way to preserve the integrity of a biography in which, over thirty-five years, her location changed on average once a year.
The installation presents 31 real addresses—documentary evidence of movement. Each entry is accompanied by an archival label: these are not merely data points, but an attempt to record a life in the format of a system, where even lost fragments of memory are marked as a technical glitch: [DATA LOST].
Beneath each address hangs a set of keys (54 in total). Laser-cut from plexiglass (acrylic) they mimic the form of everyday objects but are devoid of function. These are keys that never opened a “home,” because the space behind the door never became her own. They exist as phantoms: in the gallery space, the shadows cast by the keys appear more solid and tangible than the objects themselves.
The installation also exposes the gap between legal fact (de jure) and the reality of lived experience (de facto). In this shifting landscape, where official registration rarely coincides with a personal sense of belonging, dry statistics become the last line of defense against oblivion and the only available foundation. Remaining within this coordinate system, the work invites everyone to correlate their own geography of life with this schedule of movement and to look into the blind spots where numbers are powerless: Where does an address end and a home begin? What remains of a place when physical access is permanently closed? Is “stability” the only possible mode of belonging?