Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible

Author: Friend, Melanie

Source: Home Cultures, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2007 , pp. 93-100(8)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

Melanie Friend's exhibition Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (Camerawork, London 1996, toured until 2001) used sixteen small color images of innocuous, empty homes and gardens in Kosovo together with voiced testimonies on a soundtrack to convey the 1990s' repression of Kosovars by the Milošević regime, in the period leading up to the war of 1998/99. Her subsequent book No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo (Midnight Editions, USA: 2001), whilst also publishing portraits of refugees in Macedonia and the visual traces left by the war in Kosovo, also continued the theme of invisible trauma. Here she discusses how the work came into being.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/174063107780129699

Publication date: 2007-03-01

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Home Cultures is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the critical understanding of the domestic sphere, its artifacts, spaces and relations, across timeframes and cultures. 'Home' is a highly fluid and contested site of human existence that reflects and reifies identities and values.

In this context Home Cultures explores the relationship between body and building, consumption, material culture, the meaning of home, moving cultures and social consequences of planning and architecture.
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