Homeland

2006
Photography Series, C-print, 69 x 102 cm (27 x 40 in)
Stuttgart, Germany

In “Homeland”, Marcin creates temporary homes outside of the bourgeois comfort zone in midst of the urban sprawl of the German city of Stuttgart. By performing the concept home with her own body and an assembly of furniture and personal items, she questions the affiliation of one’s identity to one place as much as the norms behind this tradition. 

In the photo series a gas station, a fountain, a parking deck, and a bus stop serve as spaces of rest and inhabitation, chosen by its ready-installed lighting scenarios that evoke an inviting atmosphere in the otherwise deserted nightly cityscape. Finding herself within these spaces over a durational period, Marcin performs a temporary home – an idea or memory about a space that rather relates to the emotional quality of home, the inner peace and freedom it provides, even if located in the nowhere.