Unbehaust

 July 7 - August 31st, 2016

Caos Art Gallery, Venice, ITALY

The video « Unbehaust » was created for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.  

This video – along with work from seven other artists from France, Italy and the US – is a part of the show Unbehaust, which is curated by Frida Bordon and is being presented by Caos Art Gallery.

Unbehaust, meaning « the lack of home », is an echo of the title given to the Biennale 15th edition « Reporting from the front », and is also a response to the German Pavilion’s exhibition entitled « Making Heimat », which evokes the place where we belong or to which we decide to belong.

 In this video, Anne Mourier, who was born in France but has lived in the US for more than 20 years, reflects on this feeling of nostalgia in a sequence of a super 8 film showing a variety of her artworks.

Her works evoke both the confinement and the comfort of home, in contrast to the “limitless freedom” she perceived in the social imagination in America.

Navigating between prescribed domestic roles and routines needed to maintain a home, and individual space and autonomy, she traces her journey towards balancing the structure of home and total freedom.

Encapsulating this feeling of being « in between », she recalls: "Here, I am not 100% American, and in France I am not 100% French, either. Nobody sees me as somebody who belongs 100% any more".