Gion A. Caminada, Vrin, Switzerland, 1995
OfHouses guest curated by Cristian Valenzuela Pinto (Deseopolis / Sin Título Zine): Time and Space Initially, the inhabitants of this house lived in the 21st century. Laptops, cellphones, motion sensors and electricity facilitated everyday life. After a while certain automations seemed redundant and light sensors and clime control devices disrupted the routine, like carrying firewood and bringing milk from the nearby farms. Later the TV, first on mute and then turned off kept radiating frenetic attention. It was left in the storage room. The urge for long distance communications, of talking without a present interlocutor became ludicrous, cellphones now seemed like strange nuisances. Finally electricity proved excessive, daylight was enough for everyday chores and during nighttime chimney fire and candlelight shadows provided enough entertainment to fill in the idle hours. After some years the house merged with its surroundings, and the house inhabitants and their ways, merged too with the ways of centuries past. (Photos © Quart Verlag, Panov Scott, Ralph Kent, Silvia Ombellini, Peter Egloff, Petr Šmídek / archiweb.cz)
