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No Place Like Home
An ironing board becomes absurd and threatening, the doors of a house
are displaced, a glass of beer sprouts a tail... By altering material, scale,
and perspective or by employing hybridization, fragmentation, and relocation,
artists transform domestic objects and provoke a fresh response to the
familiar.
Domestic spaces, objects and materials have increasingly emerged as source of
inspiration in modern and contemporary practices. In the transition from
functional object to artwork, the domestic object becomes a tool in the
investigation of gender roles, housework, collecting and hoarding, and a means
of reflecting on the home as the central site in the formation of family and
memory, national and cultural identity.
Originating at the Israel Museum in 2017, No Place Like Home now
finds new expression as a collaboration between Jerusalem and Lisbon. The
exhibition unites more than 100 objects, drawn from collections of the Israel
Museum, the Museu Coleção Berardo, the Ellipse Collection (Holma/Ellipse),
as well as private collections, galleries, and artists.
No Place Like Home explores the question of what happens if we
restore objects-turned-artworks to their “natural” place within a quasi-home.
The exhibition’s theme, range and layout – as well as its IKEA-inspired
catalogue – offer us an experience of a “home” that is at once familiar and
disorienting. Visitors at the exhibition, designed in the spirit of an
architectural plan, play the part of the family.
This exhibition celebrates the 101 years to Duchamp’s iconoclastic
Fountain and the 102nd anniversary of the revolutionary Dada movement.
In each “room,” artists of the past 100 years are brought into dialogue. This
curatorial choice underscores the spiritual legacy of Dada, from the readymade
to a contemporary exploration of migration, displacement, and the artist’s
itinerancy in an age of globalization.
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An ironing board becomes absurd and threatening, the doors of a house
are displaced, a glass of beer sprouts a tail... By altering material, scale,
and perspective or by employing hybridization, fragmentation, and relocation,
artists transform domestic objects and provoke a fresh response to the
familiar.
Domestic spaces, objects and materials have increasingly emerged as source of
inspiration in modern and contemporary practices. In the transition from
functional object to artwork, the domestic object becomes a tool in the
investigation of gender roles, housework, collecting and hoarding, and a means
of reflecting on the home as the central site in the formation of family and
memory, national and cultural identity.
Originating at the Israel Museum in 2017, No Place Like Home now
finds new expression as a collaboration between Jerusalem and Lisbon. The
exhibition unites more than 100 objects, drawn from collections of the Israel
Museum, the Museu Coleção Berardo, the Ellipse Collection (Holma/Ellipse),
as well as private collections, galleries, and artists.
No Place Like Home explores the question of what happens if we
restore objects-turned-artworks to their “natural” place within a quasi-home.
The exhibition’s theme, range and layout – as well as its IKEA-inspired
catalogue – offer us an experience of a “home” that is at once familiar and
disorienting. Visitors at the exhibition, designed in the spirit of an
architectural plan, play the part of the family.
This exhibition celebrates the 101 years to Duchamp’s iconoclastic
Fountain and the 102nd anniversary of the revolutionary Dada movement.
In each “room,” artists of the past 100 years are brought into dialogue. This
curatorial choice underscores the spiritual legacy of Dada, from the readymade
to a contemporary exploration of migration, displacement, and the artist’s
itinerancy in an age of globalization.
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