One Hundred and Two Houses on Fire 2019
One Hundred and Two Houses on Fire 2019
Digital HD file, 16:9, 9 minutes and 43 seconds, silent
Displays a series of drawings of geometric houses consumed by fire from the inside. Growing up, Destourelles was told that in times gone by, leading up to their wedding day, his native Cape Verdean men built their family home with their own hands. As a diaspora individual, the notion of building a home, let alone feeling at home is for him simultaneously wishful and unsettling.
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