Praksis Presents
An anthology of art & ideas
Eds. Rachel Withers and Nicholas J. Jones
Issue 4:
It’s my house
—complexities of belonging
November 2021
Introduced by Nicholas John Jones
Finding Fanon Gaiden Delete: Sara’s Story
2016, Archival pigment inkjet print on 310gsm Ilford Prestige pearlescent paper, 11.6 x 20.7 cm, signed edition of 75.
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We all want to feel we belong somewhere, both spatially and socially; to be accepted by others is a fundamental human emotional need.
It’s my house, PRAKSIS Presents’s fourth issue, examines works that consider that desire and that need, variously probing relationships between self-understanding, people, place, behaviour and culture. Taken together, this issue’s contents consider structural obstacles to and conflicts arising from the quest to belong, as well as the ways in which people create personal spaces and/or collectivise in both physical and digital realms. The ‘house’ in this issue’s title is a metaphor for spaces where individuals or cohabitants can act and interact as they wish. However, a ‘house’ never exists outside of the social: no community can claim autonomy. It’s a permeable space, constantly negotiating exterior pressures and challenges.