May I enter? Can I bring all of myself?

Home and Space

The installation explores the concept of feeling at home, inspired by the will of Duchess Felicita Bevilacqua La Masa. She willed her home, now the Ca’ Pesaro museum, to young and disadvantaged Venetian artists to create a more equitable art world. As an artist from Africa, invited to engage with the history of the building, the work's questions depart from what it means to feel at home in this setup. It aims to interrogate the politics of space and the idea of belonging, also questioning who has the power to grant access to this space. The installation explores the intricacies and tensions of taking up space.

Engaging with the concept of home, the work hopes to spark a dialogue about the power dynamics that shape our relationships to physical environments. Questioning our assumptions about what it means to feel at home, we can start to challenge the superstructures that often go unquestioned. Overall, the work invites us to consider our own relationships to space and the ways in which our experiences of belonging are shaped by larger social and political structures.

AFRICA 1:1 LAB - residency outcome