Jeanne Susplugas presents a solo exhibition Se está mejor en casa que en ningún sitio (There’s No Place Like Home) at Pozu Santa Bárbara in Mieres, curated by L.E.V. (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual) and open until January 7, 2025.
There’s No Place Like Home, plays with the iconic sentence from The Wizard of Oz that gives this exhibition its title to question the notion of home as a shelter. With this video installation, where a woman repeatedly asserts the phrase from the film, Susplugas deconstructs the romantic idea of home as a place of safety, and instead tells us the domestic space could be an emotional trap, where internal tensions are amplified and routine becomes claustrophobic. As if reciting a mantra on loop, in which the repetition of words is more disconcerting than comforting, the work reflects how confinement can turn into a hostile environment for the mind.
The sculptural installation Flying House, based on a series of illustrations by the artist, represents a house suspended in the air which multiple objects hanging to symbolize the instability of something that should offer us the opposite: once again, home. Defying the laws of gravity, this installation plays with the notion of the domestic shelter as a fragile, fluctuating, and illusory concept, inviting the audience to rethink the emotional and psychological connections they create with their daily environment and the material objects they own. The objects that emerge from the hanging house materialize the reactions of various people about what they would choose to take with them if they were forced to leave their home in a hurry, aware that they might never return. Among them, you can find everything from books, computers, practical tools or different kinds of weapons.
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