You Can Never Go Home

Home;House;Longing;Alberta;Lightbox;Sculpture;Memory;Nostalgia;Anxiety;Place;Loneliness

Akkermans, Jennifer

University of Waterloo

关键词: Home;    House;    Longing;    Alberta;    Lightbox;    Sculpture;    Memory;    Nostalgia;    Anxiety;    Place;    Loneliness;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

My thesis exhibition, You Can Never Go Home, reflects the idea of irreconcilable, parallelhomes, one that’s here and one that’s there. Moving from Calgary, Alberta, to Waterloo,Ontario, to pursue my Master of Fine Arts, I have used myself as a two-year case study toexamine how one might make a new place a home. The installation consists of an abundance ofhandmade objects: life-sized selfies displayed in lightboxes, sculptures in the form of houses andother symbolic buildings (some containing lightboxes and short video loops), as well as mycollections of curios, tools and building materials. As an installation, the work examinesconcepts, concerns and emotions that accompany the process of moving a long distance—longing, memory, nostalgia, absence, belonging, family, lost-ness, place, time, anxiety,resilience, futility, humour, loneliness, rhythm and routine. It is an anxious, obsessive, yethumourous manifestation of my attempts to feel at home in a new place, just as I am about toleave.