A Home Made by Drawing
ZET Gallery (Braga, Portugal)
2019
A Home Made by Drawing is a long-term, evolving art-research and anthropological project that explores the deep-seated human instinct to dwell — to create spaces of belonging — while interrogating how contemporary experiences of mobility, displacement, and identity reshape our understanding of home and shelter. Rooted in both intuitive practice and critical inquiry, this project seeks to map the emotional and conceptual landscapes that emerge as traditional notions of dwelling are stretched, fragmented, and reimagined.
A Home Made by Drawing envisions dwelling not as a fixed or permanent state, but as a fluid, nomadic practice — a continuous negotiation between place and self, between memory and reinvention. It proposes that home is not a static location, but a dynamic, mutable experience: an ever-shifting terrain of attachment, loss, adaptation, and hope. Through this lens, identity itself becomes a kind of architecture, built and rebuilt in response to the changing landscapes we traverse.
Working through fragile, ephemeral forms, I craft symbolic nomadic structures that materialize the tensions at the heart of this inquiry — the longing for shelter and the simultaneous call to movement; the comfort of rootedness and the restless desire for transformation. These architectures are intentionally delicate, provisional, and transient, embodying the paradox of needing both to anchor and to drift, to belong and to become. They serve as visual meditations on the tenuous spaces we inhabit — not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually — in an increasingly mobile and uncertain world.