Model Room – the Cell of Tomorrow includes installations, objects, videos and prints. The artist has remade and reproduced photographs of rooms from Hannes Meyer’s “Co-op Interieur” in the exhibition space. Furniture materials and upholstery, a few collapsible elements- a bed, two chairs, a shelf, etc. (if they still have functional properties) constitute a metropolitan, minimalist, anonymous and temporary common living cell. In this space, all the personalized attributes that once constituted the modern subject of labor- male, female, adult, child, wife, husband, parent- have disappeared. In their place, the property developers’ “business blueprints” are materialized on transparent films and empty shots of different living spaces are played on the screens.

These business and imaginary scenarios based on the future of living evoke the artist’s thinking on “mobile living” and the so-called “sharing economy”. In the dislocation between the primitive cliff cave and the current rise of smart co-living apartments, the artist is more interested in discussing the most private and common space in the metropolis: a private room, than the design statement of a new city of the future. The room is never a fully autonomous space, nor is it merely a matter of “personal taste”, but rather a result of the inward subdivision of public space and economic issues. The evolving digital technologies and dense social networks have created a process of “cooperation-sharing-exchange”, which requires standardization not only of objects and tools, but also of life itself. The “model room” is not only a vision of a better life in the future, but also a presentation of the increasingly precarious state of our domestic life at the spatial and psychological levels, and a foreshadowing of space as a universal fundamental right.