Domestic Encyclopedia: Oblique Encounters of Domestic Space

Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's theory of "the container for the thing contained," Viken revisits the typical rooms of a house as containers for domestic interaction

In this "encyclopedia of domestic space," artist and author Annee Grøtte Viken enters a dialogue with the conventional spaces that surround us, the semiotic skin we call home. She uses her first love, literature, to imagine and give voice to the seemingly mute spaces we inhabit, collecting bits and pieces from the western canon ...