Meanwhile, in the living room... Publication

Eyes glued to the television set, watching hours of soap operas, sitcoms or Big Brother series, one becomes aware that the living room is as much a display case, a manifestation of social status, or a stage for human interaction, as it is the private domain into which one retreats from the public realm. For us, it has also become the framework of an artistic investigation: a kind of model for examining the relationships we have with our environment – the street, the house, the city, friends, family...

This publication reads as a kind of storyboard, with drawings that are based on the video produced during a working period at the BilbaoArte Foundation in Bilbao, and stills from the installation that was exhibited in “Home at Tent”, in TENT, Center of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The images are woven together with a text by Miren Jaio, who at the hand of four scenes from well known movies, reflects on the role of the family institution in the configuration of the borders between private and public space.