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(Hebrew) The Poetics Of Home: Between Psychological And Physical Structures

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What is a home? Is it a place or an idea? Is our home the destination we yearn for on a long journey, or the childhood origin from which we travel?

The home structures the way that we live and is structured by the cultural norms around us. And yet as these homes we inhabit create the necessary environment for dwelling and for Bachelard’s “daydreaming,” they also inhibit other forms of domesticity. It is only in the estrangement that is created by art, the shock of the uncanny, and the awareness of our embodied reaction to our dwellings, that we can glimpse other ways of living.

Lecture is in Hebrew.

Read essay in the exhibition catalog

Watch Esther Sperber present at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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