"Open House"

The Pier, 499 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York September 22 - December 16, 2001, open 7 days a week, dawn to dusk

OPEN HOUSE's walls are perforated and permeable -- made of strips, suspended by hinges, that hang inches apart from each other. The wind causes the entire house to continually tremble and shift. With no roof, OPEN HOUSE is exposed to the elements. The outside surface of each wall strip is wood; the inside is mirrored stainless steel. Within OPEN HOUSE, viewers are confronted with their reflections -- multiple, fragmented and mobile. The floor is carpeted in plush red; there is one small table, gilded in gold, with photo of a young man (Ursachi, in 1971, in front of his family home in Romania, before it was bulldozed by the state.) OPEN HOUSE speaks to the world of vulnerable shelters, porous borders, and mutating identities that are signifiers of the 21st century experience of home.