At home

At Home, 2000 View at Atelier Calder, Saché.
Photo : DR

At Home, 2000 Details, Atelier Calder, Saché.
Photo : DR

At Home is a town made up of a succession of elements inspired by various hat forms suggesting urban and industrial architecture. The standardization and globalisation of the urban fabric appears through the materials used in the construction of the town: the knitted video tape. Usually video is used as a medium to transmit information, like the unravelling of a spool of thread as it leads us through a story or event. Here the tape becomes the link between the buildings of the town and constitutes a network between 15 forms whose organization is based on the structure of the DNA chain thus referring to the infinitely small size of genetic information codes.
At Home is built from encounters and exchanges, through the setting up of a network of knitters, both men and women, thus creating a sort of human and social woven fabric around my presence during my residency at the Calder Workshop in Saché.

Sylvie Ungauer

At Home_, 2000 15 elements, variable size : 20 m2, largest height : 1 m 60
Videotape knitted, wire fence
Exhibition view at centre d’art passerelle, Brest, 2010_
Photo : 1 et 3 Nicolas Ollier ; 2 :DR

Plan of the installation

Madame Lucas, 2000 Color print on aluminium, 80 x 60 cm

Home_, 1998 Videotape knitted. 0,65 m H, 3m2 on the floor
Collection FRAC Centre
Photo : François Lauginie

These forms-shelters (a cross between clothing, hats and condoms) have been knitted using a pre-recorded VHS tape that carries invisible images and stories. The knitting of these TV dramas gradually weave a home video, one’s own home.