HOME and SWEET HOME (2003-2008)
The works have recently been shown at the Museum Maluku in Utrecht and at the Center for Contemporary Arts, the CBK in Tiel.
Home: ~ 1 a place where one lives, esp. with one’s family … He looks forward to seeing the old ~ again, e.g. his birthplace. A ~ from ~ - a place where one is as happy, as comfortable , etc as in one’s own ~.
home sweet home, make oneself at home, home is where the heart is, there is no place like home
A series of installations and photographs about home and being at home: the place one is used to, comfortable with and grew up in. It tells about the common feeling of comfort that comes with having a home. Losing a home is losing a foundation in life, sometimes even resulting in the loss of identity. ‘Home’ and ‘Sweet Home’ are about this loss and about the hope and strength of the survivors in rebuilding their lives. The works have been made in response to the civil war on the Moluccan archipelago, Indonesia. This war started in 1999 and lasted for several years.
In dedication to all that were forced to leave their homes to start a new life elsewhere.