Tree house
Installation in public space
At first glance, three small tree houses on Vegova Street are a playful paraphrase of children’s playhouses that are usually found in private gardens. Janja Kosi’s houses, however, are not intended for play, but rather for reflection on architecture and perception of space; after all, they can also be understood as an ironic commentary on dreaming about one’s own property in an overpriced capital city. The artist built the houses with metal frameworks and transparent materials – peculiar collages and montages, consisting of actual architectural elements of the surrounding buildings, which the artist had previously photographed. The tree houses thus act as an appropriated mosaic of images taken from the immediate surroundings, which gain new life with the help of projected shadows and light. The new architecture, which indicates the perpetual changeability of the urban tissue, creates new fictitious spaces and, in this way, contributes to the (light) transformation of the given urban texture.
The installation was part of Lightning Guerilla festival in Ljubljana. Find more about the fistivale here.
