“The Destroyed Room”
Jeff Wall
1978
Jeff Wall’s “The Destroyed Room” is his version of Eugene Delacroix’s “The Death of Sardanapalus”, a tragic painting about the life of an ancient Assyrian king named Sardanapalus. Finding his palace besieged by enemies, Sardanapalus decides to kill himself, but first orders his officers to destroy all his favourite possessions in his presence.
"The Irish House"
Gorey, Ireland
2024
There was a young Irish man sitting on a fridge in a chaotic household. Beside him lay an untidy mattress. The still image embodies a Schrödinger’s cat paradox: holding the potential to build or demolish a home.
——This photograph is about the dismantling and rebuilding of pride tied to one’s domestic dwelling.