HOME SKINS
Home Skins is an installation revolving around the feelings of home and how memory keeps these feelings alive.
As simple as it sounds, home it is a common place we return to, physically and mentally. Even if we find ourselves away from our homes, displaced around this world, we can come back to them, if we want to, anytime, anywhere. Sometimes we lack the words to describe ”it”, this feeling so familiar. Memory is intangible, fragmented, it escapes definitions. It is in us but it breaks away from possession. So, perhaps, as a way to re live it, we establish temporary situations that make us feel home. The build-up of this scenario of domestic archetypes, plays with the idea of stable home presences as a starting point to individual journeys.
The materials used for this installation are mainly latex and metal. Simona Kurz-Piras and Daniele Scauso have been playing with their properties, namely their ability to stay, stretch, resist, morph, a sort of a graspable attempt to replicate the evolution of memory through time.
The process of creation of latex, from a liquid to solid state, layer after layer onto the body or surfaces, the feeling of the cold liquid drying onto the warm skin, seeing it wrinkling and then detaching from it, cautiously to avoid tears, has been taken as a practice of developing skin as a fabric of memories.
The bending, welding of old metal pieces to assemble the ideas of domestic furniture and also the laborious fabrication of plaques to create metal drapes, push the boundaries of fixed definitions, asking for the necessity to stay malleable, playful, resistant. Curious to see what’s in front of us, through our eyes shaped by the past.
Home Skins is a walk through drapes of skin and emptied out past selves. It plays with scale and it wraps in steel blankets, on a welded rocking bed of dreams.
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HOME SKINS
An installation by Simona Kurz-Piras and Daniele Scauso.
24-25 October 2025, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam
As simple as it sounds, home it is a common place we return to, physically and mentally. Even if we find ourselves away from our homes, displaced around this world, we can come back to them, if we want to, anytime, anywhere. Sometimes we lack the words to describe ”it”, this feeling so familiar. Memory is intangible, fragmented, it escapes definitions. It is in us but it breaks away from possession. So, perhaps, as a way to re live it, we establish temporary situations that make us feel home. The build-up of this scenario of domestic archetypes, plays with the idea of stable home presences as a starting point to individual journeys.
The materials used for this installation are mainly latex and metal. Simona Kurz-Piras and Daniele Scauso have been playing with their properties, namely their ability to stay, stretch, resist, morph, a sort of a graspable attempt to replicate the evolution of memory through time.
The process of creation of latex, from a liquid to solid state, layer after layer onto the body or surfaces, the feeling of the cold liquid drying onto the warm skin, seeing it wrinkling and then detaching from it, cautiously to avoid tears, has been taken as a practice of developing skin as a fabric of memories.
The bending, welding of old metal pieces to assemble the ideas of domestic furniture and also the laborious fabrication of plaques to create metal drapes, push the boundaries of fixed definitions, asking for the necessity to stay malleable, playful, resistant. Curious to see what’s in front of us, through our eyes shaped by the past.
Home Skins is a walk through drapes of skin and emptied out past selves. It plays with scale and it wraps in steel blankets, on a welded rocking bed of dreams.
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HOME SKINS
An installation by Simona Kurz-Piras and Daniele Scauso.
24-25 October 2025, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam
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