Justeen Tsai

For many people, their earliest memories often take place in a domestic setting. Places embody our memories, even when those memories are contested or controversial. A house is a vessel for memories to take place – whether it is an individual memory, or a collective memory shared within the household. Memories takes roots in building fabric, spaces, gestures, images, and objects. A house encapsulates all the aspects of a memory and how it occurs in our life.

For many people, we often feel that life has taken a toll on us. The monotonous aspect of everyday life has led us to feel uninspired most of the time. Places such as a gallery allows for the stimulation of interest leading us to feel inspired, emotional, or motivated. Gallery is one of the place that build a community, a social network, a collective memories and identity. Aspects of community that has been lacking since the inception of the internet.

The inner house is an exploration on combining the typologies of a house, and a gallery. It symbolizes the progression of life and the production of memory in a household, and a community setting. As humans we have different memories – one that we might want to keep within ourselves or one that we might want to share to others. The inner house is a platform to celebrate your memories regardless whether it is personal, or not. It is true that memory can survive if the place disappear, but memory will not be as durable or flexible when the place is gone. The Inner House is a vessel to encapsulates not only past memories, however, acts also as a platform for creating new memories.