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“Open House” Turns Notions of Shelter Upside-Down

The site-specific installation uses various media to make the familiar mundane.

Staff -- Interior Design, 8/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Miami will host Brazilian artist José Bechara's second solo exhibition, “Open House,” a series of new work developed around his ongoing sculptural project called "The House,” begun in 2002. The show, which will run September 9—October 28, will highlight a series of photographs and an installation that will be shown for the first time in the United States.

Using various media, the site-specific installation, explores the concept of shelter and strives to establish physical, metaphysical, and visual relations about habitat. Furniture is projected through windows and doorways, thrown up against, changing the house's design, form, and function. Familiar objects become mundane, geometric forms, while the project at large suggests an inverted notion of housing.

"The House” has been already been exhibited in Brazil, and will also travel to the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe.