How to Make a Home

In the contemporary moment, owning a home, once central to the idea of home itself, is becoming increasingly unattainable for present and future generations. As ownership recedes, home shifts from lived reality into a projection sustained through longing.

Through this work I explore the relationship between the idea of home and the social drive for construction, expansion, and ownership of living space. New housing developments present themselves as symbols of collective aspiration and progress, yet within them lies a tension of exclusion, as owning a home remains financially unattainable for many. This contradiction becomes the ground of my research.

My work is not concerned with architecture as a physical structure, but with home as an emotional and cultural construct. The traditional notion of home as a site of stability and belonging no longer holds. It persists instead through images, nostalgia, and reconstructions of the past that attempt to compensate for a lost sense of permanence. Within this condition, home appears as a projection rather than a reality, a symbol of an impossible return sustained through longing and illusion.