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    Benedicte Emsens

  • The Children's Room (from the Eclipser series), Benedicte Emsens, 58 x 80 cm, Inkj..
    The Children's Room (from the Eclipser series), Benedicte Emsens, 58 x 80 cm, Inkjet print
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  • ‘Joy is to be left, in the night, hungry and cold at the doorstep of your own house…’
    Christian Bobin, Le Trés-Bas (Paris, 1993)

    What is place?

    I am interested in houses, buildings and rooms – like skins that can be turned inside out. My work is concerned with the construction and destruction of living spaces, questioning the tension between space and place. Utilising a mix of built and rebuilt models, collages and real spaces, I investigate the boundaries between inside and outside, staging situations where a space is on the edge of becoming a ‘non-place’.

    As we are never sure where we are…

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