British artist Jan McCullough’s Home Instruction Manual is just that: a photographic portfolio of a new home decorated to comply with what posters on an Internet forum consider the perfect home.
Belfast-based McCullogh searched the internet for tips on how to build the perfect home. Starting with a simple Google search for “How to Make a Home,” she stumbled upon a forum which was full of advice on how the perfect home should be composed. After collecting all the tips, Jan rented a house and followed all the instructions given to her.
The result is a house with a “forced personality” that McCullogh calls “neither homely nor inviting,” but fascinating noetheless. Bare, scattered, structureless – the end result is a house that’s not so much a home as it is amalgam of incoherent ideas.
The photos are on display at Belfast Exposed Futures through August 22nd. See a selection below.
