Curatorial statement / Concept:
Our starting point is to establish the home or the living space as a place where our private life is carried out, the intimate place, the private scene: A revealing room of our cultural identity; A place where the life of the family and the individual develops; in any part of the world, in all the cultures, it exists in a million different forms.
Many people think of home in terms of where they grew up or where they lived, a place that brings back old memories or feelings, and a home can even be a feeling rather than an actual place. The phrases, "There's no place like home." or "Home is where the heart is." come from these sentiments.
The home is a testimony of our existence, where the going on of our lives is revealed in a physical form; it can be represented through the movements which inside this space happen, in the objects that we accumulate or in the proper form and dimension that the space takes. At home we keep our most valued goods and receive our most dear hosts. When we want to disconnect and be in intimacy, it is the place where we are more in pleasure, our proper portion of the world: Our island, our castle.
We believe that the Home can be an interesting topic for a multicultural project since with a very clear and explicit subject-matter, a space, we can talk and reflect other topics with big anthropological and social interest: The diversity. The differences the home takes are representative of social class, customs, ideology, climate, education... The home speaks by itself and about the persons who inhabit it, about us.
Panel discussion in Seminaarraum / Werkstatt der Kulturen: 
With edition of a catalogue. 
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