Untitled (Houses)

Juliette Lena Hager

Houses (Untitled), is a printed reimagining of a sculpture by Juliette Lena Hager. The sculpture is a collection of 456 house portraits, printed on latex and weaved together into a complex tapestry. Created during lockdown, each image was sourced online, from a wide variety of sources, and in each instance the house is presented frontally, emphasising its most archetypal and recognisable form. The latex pieces, with their skin-like texture, evoke a corporeal quality, each fragment embodying the concept of "house" as both surface and symbol. The repetition of this form induces a kind of semantic satiation: as the viewer scans the work, the meaning of the house begins to dissolve. Some images appear blurred or degraded, while others remain sharply defined, prompting a quiet tension between what is real and what is digitally rendered. 2024 240 Pages 280 x 210 mm Section sewn with exposed spine and fold out poster dust jacket £55 / sold out