Breathing: Our house, my life
09/14/2014 — 11/16/2014
Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Our house, my life is an installation by Nelson Leirner to mark the tenth anniversary of the Breathing Project at Fundação Eva Klabin.
The artist decided to create a show apartment from the government’s My House, My Life housing program in one of the rooms from the Eva Klabin house museum, transforming this luxury haven into a fully furnished budget apartment with living and sleeping areas, bathroom and kitchen for a family of four.
Drawing on humor and irony in their broadest sense, Leirner probes the situations he comes across with a critical irony that questions the prevailing standards in politics, art, and social and economic compacts. This was his strategy in creating a new home inside the Eva Klabin house museum, but this time on a shoestring budget.
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