Description of a Family Apartment

Description of a Family Apartment is an installation, which represents an “ideal home”, made in order to reveal the political and ideological background used to define “the basic social unit.” The 29 plywood cubes, taking their shape from the monument Altar of the Homeland (opens in a new tab), transform the gallery space into a prototype of the family apartment as proposed by conservative politics. By building the private space using the elements of state representation, a dystopian collapse of the division of private and public is made apparent.

In Croatia, the civic initiative In the Name Of the Family (opens in a new tab) initiated a referendum in 2013, in order to constitutionally define marriage as a union of a man and a woman, which had an affirmative outcome. Fokus Grupa branded the elements of their work using the logo of the organization, featuring a heterosexual couple with two children.

Details

technical info: sculpture, ambient, modular furniture/ dimensions: variable / year 2015
exhibition view: As It Once Was — the Art of Nation Building, Offbiennale, Budapest (opens in a new tab)
photo credits: Csaba Aknay