P007 → Houses of the Unreal
Concept
These architectural impossibilities exist in the liminal space between memory and dream, where the concept of "home" dissolves into pure atmosphere.
Drawing on Bachelard's notion of the house as our "corner of the world", these structures reject functionality in favor of emotional topology - each one a monument to the feeling of home rather than its form.
The toy-like quality isn't nostalgic but archaeological, as if we're excavating a child's understanding of shelter before it became codified by walls and roofs. Here, staircases lead to nowhere, rooms float untethered, and domestic objects become talismans in impossible geometries.
The work exists in dialogue with the Surrealists' investigation of the uncanny, but where they sought to disturb, these houses want to seduce, or better, to attract - inviting us to reconsider whether home is a place we inhabit or a fiction we construct. The absurd becomes a methodology for accessing something primal: that pre-linguistic sensation of belonging that exists before society imposes its logic on our need for shelter.
Notes
This project emerged from a fascination with how children construct worlds from fragments - how a few blocks can contain entire narratives of domesticity. By translating this intuitive architecture into realized environments, the work asks viewers to reconsider the emotional infrastructure that underlies our adult understanding of home.The deliberate use of pastel palettes and toy-like materiality creates a dissonance: these are spaces that promise intimacy while maintaining a dreamlike distance.
The intention is to capture that peculiar homesickness we feel for places that never existed - a longing not for childhood homes but for the mythological homes childhood convinced us were possible.
Context
An independent project developed in Berlin, exploring the visual and philosophical possibilities
of architectural impossibility. The work exists at the intersection of digital art, photography, and spatial design, created outside of commissioned frameworks to allow for pure conceptual exploration. The series has been shared in informal critique settings and artist exchanges,
serving as a foundation for ongoing investigations into domestic space
and surreal environments.