Gallery 01:5
HOME
How do we see ourselves through the structures we inhabit? The home is such a structure – an architecture of living that reflects all the critical and quotidian details that make up one’s life.
“I’ve always been interested in the domestic. Hijacking things that we’re familiar with and essentially occupying them”, says Rashid Johnson. Rashid appropriates the cube-form from Sol LeWitt’s 3C Half Off Piece (1969), on display in the adjacent room, for the structure of his new sculpture Home (2023), at the center of this gallery. He fills the structure with life, ideas, sounds, and memories. The plants, books, and other elements are elements that open a different register of abstraction, but also serve as marks and gestures through which, as Rashid says, “I want to be engaged, like you can be.” This is an invitation. This is a self- portrait. This is a structure that holds and sustains life. This is home.
On the horizon there is Japanese artist On Kawara, who, between 1968 and 1979, sent two postcards every day to various friends, family members, or colleagues. Each card was stamped with the time he got up that day, perhaps abstracting life to the most rudimentary yet powerful signal. Former Moderna Museet director Pontus Hultén received 116 postcards – in them, Kawara makes him- self known by marking time, place, and presence.
