“…because the primary function of furniture and objects here is to personify human relationships, to fill the space that they share between them, and to be inhabited by a soul.” ― Jean Baudrillard

 

Domestic objects are saturated with cultural meaning—whispering stories about our everyday rituals, our wants and desires, our relationships, as well as our shortcomings as human beings. This exhibition aims to invite curiosity into the ways we inhabit our homes by contemplating the objects that surround us. All the artworks selected were chosen in consideration of habitual and everyday objects, specifically those which cannot perform their primary function without the active participation of a person or sentient being.

 

The represented objects featured in this exhibition appear to hold a patina or residue of life, yet all are inanimate lifeless forms. Absence Inhabited serves as an examination of absence representing presence, and the inherent states of being that are reflected in these various artworks. The range of objects represented allows for consideration of the concept of home and being from a variety of viewpoints – and challenges us to think about how we live, communicate, and function on a day to day basis.