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An inventory to record the move to Valls. Almost everything that configures Hogar dulce hogar (Home Sweet Home)<\/em> by Ciprian Homorodean would fit in a catalogue; but although I will itemise the pieces that make up this new chapter in the work of the Rumanian artist, I notice right from the beginning some elusive tensions hidden in the Sant Roc Chapel. In the hallway, a board. In the space that delineates the living room, a bench in front of a side table. Next a threshold, that asks to be crossed, accessing the bedroom. Lamps generate different atmospheres in all of the rooms. Scenarios bathed in tenuous light in which the furniture seems decorative in appearance, until it insinuates the rupture of the tandem between functionality and the precarious. This setting of the stage of minimal resources is a declaration of intentions: the modelling of an aesthetic not restricted to mere ornament so much as on the contrary it seeks forms of living and creating with scarcity.<\/p>\n The reusing of recycled materials alludes to the essentials needed for rest or for the pleasure of eating but at the same time also manifest the importance the (de)construction of the found has for this artist. The pieces are the result, the final gesture, but are not the only ones to bear in mind. In this working process of the accumulation of experiences, one has to take into consideration the time from when Ciprian Homorodean first sets out on the trail, like a bloodhound, looking for materials to produce the minimally necessary in the rooms. To assemble the house, to think of the materials with which to model the chairs, the dining-room, the shelves\u2026 is also a way of distancing oneself from mere utility. According to the form and the place in which these are developed, they express the economic conditions and (dis)entrenchment of the occupants of a house.<\/p>\n A (desacralized) religious building, the chapel of Sant Roc is the place that houses the exhibition and becomes the backdrop for the questioning of the habitat. What is a home? Where is it situated? Is furniture fundamental for the habitation of a home? Are houses cupolas? Are there houses without roofs? With no roof but with a fire to huddle around? Let me add a question formulated by Marta Rosler in 1993; its validity dialogues and pays testimony to the relevance of what has been recounted until now: How do we know what home looks like?<\/em><\/p>\n![\"b)](\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ragina-maria-23_copy_copy_co_pia.jpg\")
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