Un-Living Room begins from my attempt to break down the controlling domestic rituals I’ve experienced for long, especially the norms surrounding the daily act of eating. The living room, which once used to function under the name of familial intimacy, has not actually offered me warmth. It was a place where obligatory care and enforced closeness were flowing, and in order not to conform to that false relationship, I chose to distort the space itself.

I start wrapping to protect my food and plate from the saliva shared through meals with others. This small defensive gesture gradually expands and begins to cover the whole living room, and eventually it transforms into an unliving scene where nobody is comfortably livable. Thus, the living room of this project loses its original meaning, becoming a non-welcoming, non-habitable space that push humans away, rejects the intimacy, and dismantle the conventional domestic rules and function of the space. Ultimately, un-living room is an act of confronting and refusing everyday power and rituals that were hidden behind the structure of home by turning a place that used to enforce intimacy to me into an unlivable place to others equally.