Le refuge, LANDING Eco-Art Exhibition, No.9. Gardens & Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (Canada) 2024

It is a metaphor for talking about interiority, the intimate. To think of shelter is to think of a border between an interior and what is on the other side, the exterior. Going through the architectural question of what separates us from an exterior, I use the “cabin” object as a metaphor for our interiority. The cabin thus echoes the body, the first place of what the human feels internally, and more broadly opens a reflection on the boundaries of the intimate.

Here, ‘the refuge’ is no longer in the cabin but outside: the construction which announced rest and warmth invites you to move on, ensuring that the real refuge is elsewhere.