Photo Series
2017
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In this photographic series, placing paper houses not upon the world but onto the human body creates a contrast concerning notions of dwelling. The house is no longer situated in a geography, on a plot of land, or in a street; instead, it rests upon the surface of the individual. By positioning the paper houses fictionally on the human body, a space for questioning the concept of place is opened to the viewer. While the human body functions as a terrain, the house models appear like a neighborhood constructed upon this terrain. This mode of settlement emphasizes the temporality of the body in contrast to the fixed nature of the house.

According to Edward Casey, “a place is a remembered space.” From this perspective, the paper houses can be understood as “portable memory capsules.” Placing the houses on a body suggests that belonging is not established through a fixed, immobile location, but through a bodily sensation.

This positioning also references Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he argues that the house is not merely a physical structure but a space of existence shaped by dreams and past impressions. The irregular yet deliberately constructed placement of the paper houses on the body brings forth a form of “relationality with place” that goes beyond settledness. The house is no longer a dwelling to live inside, but a form that temporarily rests upon a bodily map.

In this sense, while the photographic series questions the relationship between the house and place, it simultaneously opens a space for reconsidering what “place” itself means.