{"uid":"7nEoVvcBUZu9WbYk","type":"artist","tags":["photography","video"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"La Casa","summary":"The concept of home is fluid and unstable. An extension of the psyche, an oppressive place, a cherished memory, or an imagined space, the home can be found in our own body, in the native land, or far from our country of birth.\nAfter leaving Caracas, Venezuela, to study at Central Saint Martins, Daniela Benaim began asking herself \u2018what is home?\u2019 Titled La Casa, the house in Spanish, the body of work centres around the relationship between place, body and self. Daniela collaborated with photographers and creatives in both Caracas and London, her two homes, to explore multiple notions of the house. Using masks and dolls made with found objects and second-hand clothes \u2014 rags with holes, dust and odours that like the house and body show signs of time \u2014, the images examine themes of identity, alienation, migration, loneliness and nostalgia.  \nThe result is seven individual publications that investigate the experience of home: Body as Home, Home as a Metaphor of the Mind, Home as an Extension of the Self, Home as Prison, Home in the Exile, Homeland and Non-Home.\nThe film \u2018Home as an extension of the self\u2019 focuses on the relationship between women and the domestic space, and its subversion.  Inspired by Julia Kristeva\u2019s concept of abjection and Mikhail Bakhtin\u2019s theory of the grotesque, it investigates the process of ageing and decay through the presence of holes, stains and smells in the house, the subject, and the clothes.","space":"The exhibition would feature still and moving images and also the props (masks and dolls) specially produced for the project. \nMost of the photos were taken in abandoned places in Venezuela. As La Casa centres on the concept of the house, the ideal space for this exhibition would be a building with personality. Nevertheless, it could be adapted to any indoor space. The walls could be between 4 and 9 meters in length. \nThe images size could be of 40x60 inches or 25 inches on the long size.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1cLIJtYvsxc","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":10,"names":"Daniela","surname":"Benaim Benhamu","email":"daniben19@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"XDC362210","address":"40 Golders Way","city":"London","nacionality":"Spanish and Venezuelan","country_id":"81","birthdate":"1991-11-19T00:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1991-11-19T00:00:00.000Z","telephone":"447927011934","web":"danibenben.com"}