My house in the air
2019
Performance with a flying house

Ma maison en l’air takes the house as its point of departure - as a symbolic figure of protection, belonging, and stability - in order to reveal its reverse: an unstable, precarious, and conditional space. In my work, the house or the room is not merely an architectural structure or a place to live; it embodies the limits imposed at the scale of everyday life, where the intimate, the political, and the administrative intersect. In Ma maison en l’air, I perform in public space with a light, transparent inflatable house that floats above me. This house, colored like a rainbow, appears suspended in midair, unable to anchor itself to the ground, as if it could disappear at any moment. I walk barefoot through Paris, holding this floating house as it drifts through the air. My gaze remains constantly fixed on it as I move slowly through the city. The house floats like an apparition, and my own body -exposed and vulnerable- takes on an almost ghostlike quality. Walking barefoot makes each step uncertain; direct contact with the ground intensifies both the fragility of the body and an acute awareness of the urban environment. The house rests on a transparent ground on which my temporary residence permit receipt is printed. In administrative and everyday reality, possession of this document grants legal existence; without it, one becomes unseen and unrecognized within the society we inhabit.The performance brings this contradiction into tension: a document meant to guarantee an identity, yet one that remains provisional, fragile, and constantly threatened by expiration. The house can neither fully settle nor truly be inhabited. The house thus becomes a paradoxical place: at once a dreamed refuge and an unstable, floating structure.