For me, “inhabiting” the kitchen made a link between the history of the apartment space and my personal history. This permitted an investigation and visualization of public and political influences on private lives.
Anthony Vidler writes: “As articulated theoretically by Freud, the uncanny or unheimlich is rooted … in the environment of the domestic … thereby opening up problems of identity around the self, the other, the body and its absence… Estrangement and unhomeliness have emerged as the intellectual watchwords of our century … a homelessness generated sometimes by war, sometimes by the unequal distribution of wealth.”
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