Christmas at Home

Home can mean a place of security, but also a place of restrictions and tension. In Christmas at Home, the colour green represents both: the associations with the power of recreation and simultaneously with envy and greed.

The installation aims to express the contradictory feelings of relaxing and disturbing atmosphere at the ultimate family event, Christmas. It depicts the typical 'family at home' gathering in their living room, watching TV, eating and drinking. The father and the mother are lounging on the sofa, the child sits secured in its chair, the sausage dog Waldi lies on the carpet. - A family situation everybody knows, in an environment everybody knows: an iconic green landscape painting and a hunting trophy hang on the walls, figurines are displayed on furniture. Every item tells a story of past memories, which become a part of daily life. At the centre of the scenario: the TV as focus of attraction: a soap opera - Little Red Riding Hood is being broadcast.

Christmas at Home aims to express both, the family as an entity of seeming harmony, relaxation or maybe boredom, and underlying disturbing psychological current, which is drowned by overconsumption of food, drink and media entertainment exposure.