ORSOLYA
The work proposed for DOM.ESTIC explores the question of what guides people when choosing a home or collaborating with an architect in the design process. What motivates certain decisions over others? And what does “living” symbolize in today’s society?
The installation brings together the desires, dreams, and cultural models that shape our choices, placing them alongside a symbolic structure of homes: a fragile grid made of paper, composed of identically sized squares. Like birdhouses, each unit has an opening of a different diameter, depending on the species it is meant to shelter. Beyond the messages conveyed through position, materials, architectural language, and degrees of openness or enclosure, the central question remains: what do homes actually conceal? If we imagine them as tightly sealed bottles cast into the sea, each containing a message, a dream, or a longing, what would we find inside?
The two perpendicular planes of the installation represent parallel projections of the same reality: on one hand, the physical space that frames and contains life within its walls; on the other, the imagined life—the dream or ideal image of living—that, in turn, shapes and defines that physical space.
The work was part of the exhibition DOM.ESTIC organised by BATRA 2025 in Cluj - Napoca
The installation brings together the desires, dreams, and cultural models that shape our choices, placing them alongside a symbolic structure of homes: a fragile grid made of paper, composed of identically sized squares. Like birdhouses, each unit has an opening of a different diameter, depending on the species it is meant to shelter. Beyond the messages conveyed through position, materials, architectural language, and degrees of openness or enclosure, the central question remains: what do homes actually conceal? If we imagine them as tightly sealed bottles cast into the sea, each containing a message, a dream, or a longing, what would we find inside?
The two perpendicular planes of the installation represent parallel projections of the same reality: on one hand, the physical space that frames and contains life within its walls; on the other, the imagined life—the dream or ideal image of living—that, in turn, shapes and defines that physical space.
The work was part of the exhibition DOM.ESTIC organised by BATRA 2025 in Cluj - Napoca