Florendom

Florendom is a fictional family chronicle. It depicts a space-time in which the inhabitants of a house meet, seek common ground, and learn to tolerate each other's differences. The images and text in this author's book engage in a dialogue: they intertwine, complement each other, and inspire one another.

With my story, I touch on society's urgent need to come to terms with today's concept of family. Its traditional conception is confronted with a modern view of fundamental questions concerning the nuclear family, heteronormativity, and the upbringing of children. I reflect on the theme through essential images, subtle associations and symbols, and through deeply felt, buried emotions that are stuck in my or my loved one's memory.

I work with combining real stories and fiction, creating a personal mythology in which the family home is a collective body, a living, fragile, and vulnerable organism. Instead of walls, it is held together by the relationships between its members, which are as fragile as they are changeable and malleable – the shape of home is thus permanently unstable.

This project is ongoing.

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