Airbnb Pavilion. Welcome You’re in The Right Place

From April 23 to August 30, 2015, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Welcome You’re in the Right Place, curated by AIRBNB Pavilion (Alessandro Bava, Octave Perrault, Fabrizio Ballabio and Luis Ortega Govela).
Following his award of the second Re Rebaudengo Serpentine Grants, Alessandro Bava and the AIRBNB Pavilion curate the the exhibition Welcome You’re in the right place.
AIRBNB Pavilion is an art collective working on the relationship between objects, interiors, domesticity and the city. It was founded by architects Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela and Octave Perrault with an exhibition at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
The collective works through different mediums including curation, performance, site-specific installations as well as writing and images. The work focuses the relationship between objects and their environments, the effects of the internet on the city, and the rapid changes of the home as a conflicted space of intimacy and production.
The depiction and experience of the home online always relies on imagined and sublimated personal narratives attached to the objects that populate ones domestic landscape. These affective attributes constitute the lived-in matter that transcends the
alchemy of the object as personal -and somewhat esoteric- signifier of intimacy, in a spendable currency to market or at least display the home. The work of the artists present in the AIRBNB Pavilion Turin exhibition all relate in different ways to this evolution of the domestic object and how it operates within the new domestic landscape of today.
In Marie Lund and Jason Dodge’s work the apparent ordinariness of the objects used in their sculptures hides the narratives embedded in them. From pillows to curtains, banal textile addendums to everyday life are used to implicate history and memory within the exhibition space. Josef Strau, whose practice lies in between writing and sculpture, uses everyday objects like lamps as “phenomenological stand-ins for a particularly eccentric reading experience that’s both formal and functional, writing and representation”.
In Bunny Rogers work the interwoven chairs are an archetypal symbol of friendship and act as a poetic object which exists both as sculpture and as prop for poetry readings in collaboration with artist Brigid Mason. In Philipp Timischl’s sculptural assemblages, that include a TV and a painting, the home surfaces as the background of a personal and intimate story lacking a storyline. the sculptures, populated with familiar elements become totems that allude to a larger autobiographical yet fictional story.

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