Multimedia project
2005-2008
HOME was designed to be an extensive multimedia art exhibition exploring the idea of shelter and space. The intention was inviting a group of artists to reflect on the concept of home, its meanings and representations from a comprehensive perspective, considering how people identify and become attached to places, buildings and objects and how this attachment can contribute to their personal well-being and support their identities.
The project also wants to look at the meaning of home for individuals who have migrated and are living in different places, as well as the erratic travellers and their dilemma: Where is home? What does 'home' means? Am I at home? The aim is to interconnect several disciplines such as installation, photography, design, architecture, painting and video.
Home is the house and the soil, and it is the body to enclose and protect our souls. It is both the mother’s womb and the whole planet where our lives unfold. Nevertheless, home can also be a place in our memories and fantasies.
By scrutinising the idea of home, the project has the ambition to stimulate a reflection about the challenges for surviving in our world depending on local and global economies and the continuous movement of individuals and populations from one place to another. Ultimately, it aims to look at the human battle against nature and the universal urge to save the planet by creating a safe place, a site or a situation to fit in. Considering that we are living in exceptional times, we must change the way we live in order to stop the exhaustion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.
By exploring the theme under new emotional elements, the project wants to create a compelling experience around the subject and to underline the several meanings and representations of home, encompassing the inner and the outer space, in the present times.
_Neyde Lantyer, 2008.
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This project was inspired by the process of starting a new life in foreign country, from the hardships of proving a love relationship to the immigration services, to the whole effort to settle, while questioning love as a guarantee of home.