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Tropicality: Houses by Andra Matin
256 pages, Hardcover
Published October 8, 2024
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March 22, 2025
Andra gives to non-space, or in-between space. Plato’s concept of khôra comes to mind: an open space allowing for multiplicity, change and difference - alterity and alteration - it is concrete but also abyssal.
In many of Andra’s houses, whether inside or outside, there can be found undefined spaces whose function does not bear a traditional room designation such as “living room”, or “bedroom “. Breaking through such conventions reflects a particularly astute understanding of human nature: that we need space to better discover ourselves where no prescribed role or function is given.
In many of Andra’s houses, whether inside or outside, there can be found undefined spaces whose function does not bear a traditional room designation such as “living room”, or “bedroom “. Breaking through such conventions reflects a particularly astute understanding of human nature: that we need space to better discover ourselves where no prescribed role or function is given.
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