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re:kindle public arts: 'Broken Home'

re:kindle public arts: 'Broken Home'
Velvet Zoe Ramos, Broken Home, 2010, mixed media, dimensions variable.
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Ramos’ artistic expression evolves around memory, imagination and how we understand the pain of Others. This topic always immerse as narrative, combined with current social and political issues. The idea or concept of a broken home came to mind when she was reflecting on the stability of the home she grew-up in.
 

By generally questioning someone leaving their home and setting up their own ‘temporary transitional dwelling’ and how in some cases this transition becomes permanent. In other instances individuals are unable to find a shelter appropriated to their name, and therefore being called ‘Homeless’. 

The project also examines the internalized home. The constructed dwelling is made out of found wood, twigs and mud, and refers to stability and continuity. The wood has been white-washed to emphasise a ghostly feel and to contrast the makeshift transparent sown tent.  The shelter represents the inner being exposed to the outside world as well as signifying attributes of mobility and re-location, leaving the wooden skeleton behind.

The installation is primitive, incomplete and organic in its shape and has a personal significance for Ramos as she left her family on Aruba and moved to London to build a new life. 

 

Renée Pfister, 2010

 

Velvet Zoe Ramos
Broken Home, 2010
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Queens Wood, Highgate, London