make-up house
The make-up house is all surface. Sheets of corrugated metal folded to create a sheltering space, the house is open to the elements, with a small area to inhabit—just enough space to put on some make-up. Equipped with a small desk, a mirror and a selection of cosmetics, special guests are invited to propose and make a maquillage for the house. Each of these is applied temporarily to the facade. Simultaneously a person can make up their own face in a similar fashion. The recurring events are ephemeral, lasting from a day to a few weeks. The house lives the life of a surface, existing by making spark appearances.
session one Josée Gensollen
session two Karl Holmqvist
session three Sam Chermayeff Office
session four Jean-Pascal Flavien
session five Karisma Ekeh and Chimaobi Alaike
session six Natalie Czech
session one
Oct. 2022
eye liner
with Shantala Chandel
& Moritz Heuberger
applying make-up in the house
For the first public appearance of the make-up house collector Josée Gensollen transposed the make-up she frequently wears to the house.
session two
Dec. 2022
facade tape paint face
[photo] valentin wedde
[photo] studio flavien
For the second public appearance of the make-up house Karl Holmqvist created a facade tape paint face on the house.
EYE HAVE GOTTA USE WORDS // EYE SPY // EYES
Inside the house Karl selected six words from which the public invited to choose to tape on their face and become their own poem:
BAD / MAD / SAD // GOOD / MOOD / HOOD // TAPE YOUR FACE
Karl was reading 'MAKE-UP’, ‘LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO’, ‘MEMORIES EQUAL ENEMIES'
session three
Feb. 2023
hearth out
[photo] valentin wedde
[photo] studio flavien
For the third public appearance of the make-up house Sam Chermayeff Office created practical make-up for the house titled hearth out. Inside the house the public was invited to tattoo their face with fire and the hearth.
session four
Apr. 2023
sexuality line
[photo] valentin wedde
[photo] studio flavien
For the fourth public appearance of the make-up house a winding sexuality line snakes through the house as make-up. Drinking from the line, mixing with grenadine or basil syrup, people could make-up their insides red or green.
session five
May 2023
AH uh Oh YeAh
[photo] valentin wedde
For the fifth public appearance Karisma Ekeh with Chimaobi Alaike performed AH uh Oh YeAh as make-up for the house.
session six
Sep. 2023
response / response
[photo] studio flavien
For the sixth make-up session, Natalie Czech responded with a work titled Response / Response.
The series titled Response / Response is a photographic and collaborative work that invites writers, Rindon Johnson and Hanne Lippard to respond to existing poems. The photos are polyptychs in the form of glyphs or patterns. The two ends of the pencils motifs, one writing, one erasing accompany the rewriting gesture of the textual response.
