Lola Pertsowsky

Pas de porte Panorama I II III (triptych)

Still from home

This project will be published as a book in the course of 2025 with the support of Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles.

table top garden soil bedroom mess kitchen chores tiled floor inside outside through windows and corridors, nooks and crannies, left over meals

The series Still from Home documents details of domestic life in and about the house of my mother and other places I once lived. Objects, animals, and plants seem to lead their own lives and interact with one another. Hinting at Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto, this collection of photographs evokes the idea that significant otherness is perhaps not exclusively implicit in the living but as well in the inanimate.

A fly gulping breakfast’s leftovers, dishes waiting to be done, a carved-out piece of butter, half a lemon, a smartphone, and a colony of ants all cohabit in the sphere of the home. Through these intimate encounters, arrangements, and interplay on scale, the series questions the way things coexist and what they tell about us.