igotathingforchairs presents: What Makes a House a Home?

This exhibition explores the question: “What makes a house a home?”

Rather than seeking a single answer, the project considers home as something shaped through memory, care, tradition, and emotional attachment, often carried through objects rather than places.

The artists of igotathingforchairs examine the domestic object as an intimate form of home. Their works draw on personal narratives, nostalgia, and inherited histories, transforming familiar forms into carriers of meaning. Each object holds a quiet presence, reflecting the artist’s own understanding of home.

Alma House, a space that serves as a temporary home for many, provides a fitting context for the exhibition. Its role as a place of transition and shared living mirrors the exhibition’s focus on how feelings of belonging can emerge outside permanence. Here, home is constructed through atmosphere, memory, and use, rather than ownership or duration.

Together, these works invite viewers to reflect on their own relationships to domestic space and everyday objects, and to consider how ideas of home are formed, remembered, and reimagined.