A political election campaign usually involves public speeches, debates, discussions and advertising. But not only: in some cases, the candidates agree or choose to be visited and portrayed within their own four walls. When depicted in one’s entrusted environment, every detail may be of high importance: The selection of (im)personal objects – their position in space, their quantity –, the spatial background, the light, the furniture, the traces of life.Our object of interest is the physical surroundings that a president or prime minister has chosen to be photographed in. We acknowledge the political potential that the domestic sphere reveals when it is turned into a space of representation.
2019
The power of domestic spaceModel photographs of the residence interiors of Ignazio Cassis (Switzerland), Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand), Boris Johnson (United Kingdom), Donald Trump (USA), Mauricio Macri (Argentina), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar), and Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines)Exhibited at the XII International Architecture Biennale of São PauloIn collaboration with Oliver Xavier Burch, David Moser and Noël Picco
