To regard a house as a “home” is to regard a building as a world. Qamutit Home seeks to strip the idea of a house from its formal expression and to stimulate dialogue between itself and the audience by inviting visitors to share and further develop the concept of the Home and its subtleties. The project reveals this ongoing research, exposing our own big question marks and giving space for reflection.

The construction of the exhibition piece is inspired by traditional Inuit building techniques, utilising the method of placing poles in accurately cut holes instead of using bolts and screws and tying methods using lashings to create self-locking knots. The sledge’s “timber scaffolding” structure includes a series of solid Douglas fir panels, each with an individual’s story on the subject of home and the meanings and associations it creates for the visitors.