Description
Our identity is inseparable from the places we inhabit, experience or in which we build relationships and memories. We need a place to stay, to keep what is ours, to return and gather experiences and affections. Desired Shelters parts from the appropriation of Stevenson Shelter, as an object present in a transient identity space and devoid of its usual functionality for a series of performances that focus on architectural aspects enhanced by his house shape, as well as the distinction of being an object you want to receive and protect something. It presents thus a fictional atlas houses, shelters and refuges that hold memories and references of a particular space and simultaneously appeal to our desire to live and the experience. It is intended to imply the presence of different geographical and landscape contexts where shelters are installed and protect vulnerable memories to time, creating imaginary and impossible constructions, non-existent places. Even if we have a favorite, proper and necessary place, the possibility of inhabiting a distant refuge and displaced from everything we know takes us to a desired imagery and an alternative experiential context.