This project continues the themes explored in Inventory I: Useless Things. Here, I set out to create a complete inventory of the family home where my mother, grandmother, and I were living at the time. The house was deeply lived in — traces of lived experiences, and things that reflected those lives.

Grand Reading examines the meaning of home and the material culture that shapes it. Through the process of making the inventory, it became clear that the things people keep at home cannot be categorized in a fully logical way. Any attempt to systemize them according to pre-existing categories becomes a persistent failure: there is always something that does not fit. What emerges instead, when dealing with the idea of home, are the personal associations and memories attached to it.

The exhibition consisted of inventory lists, attempts to categorize what cannot truly be categorized, documentary images of objects, drawings of the house, and a video. The video was shown inside a red box resembling a mechanical television and was viewed through a magnifying glass. In it, a girl — perhaps from another time — walks toward the window and climbs inside. She begins the inventory of the house.

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