Topographies of Belonging, Homeskins I–V

Asia NOW 2025, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, 2025
Curated by Arnaud Morand

Geotextile fabric, reclaimed foundry sand, stainless steel;
site-specific installation, variable number of homeskins (each up to 30 m long)

Topographies of Belonging, Homeskins I–V envisions land and self as a single surface. Each homeskin is a memory of ground made portable: a horizon folded, lifted, and carried. The work asks how a country is kept not through territory but through bodies in motion, how bonds, rather than borders, hold a community.

Materially, the skins are formed from foundry sand, earth forced through industrial systems, then cast aside. Burnt sand is bound into paper-fabric sheets and hand-formed into tall, soft columns. Dark and matte, they appear as blankets of earth, holding a condition parallel to human histories reshaped by political forces that render origins unstable.

The skins gather as a unit, moving through space like a family in transit. Once horizons observed from the fixed ground of home, they have unfurled into the paths walked: routes of migration and survival. They embody a collective movement, an insistence on cohesion against fragmentation.

Installed within the staircase of the Monnaie de Paris, the forms were suspended in the architectural void, transforming the passageway into a living field where re-rooting became an act of shared movement rather than a location.