23.08.2023
Ivan Simonov, Dinara Hurtnagl
The name is quite conventional, just like the old plaques on houses that keep the memory of the past but do not reflect the present.
"House of exemplary maintenance"
The name is quite conventional, just like the old plaques on houses, which keep the memory of the past but do not reflect the present.
We are not presenting a house of exemplary maintenance, but a play on the name. What is depicted is not directly related one thing to another. The coincidence of the house and its inhabitants is coincidental.
Often we do not choose an ideal house or an ideal model of society, rather we get caught up in it and exist trying to create comfortable conditions for ourselves.
What is the model? And who sets it?
In many ways, the model home for us is the conditions in which we grew up and the environment that raised us. To some extent, each of us is responsible for the pattern that will be in the perception of the younger generations. As sociologists James Wilson and George Kelling noted in their "broken windows" theory: destruction comes when it is allowed to happen. And it is our responsibility to prevent that destruction.
For some, a city is houses; for others, it is people. It is a patchwork quilt, assembled from a multitude of particles. Chaos organized in concrete, brick and asphalt. A collision with your neighbors in the entryway or random passersby on the street has the power to change you the very second you bump into each other. But what this collision is and what will be its consequences - here it is impossible to predict anything. It's random and that's all there is to it.
So all "models" are conditional and depend on ourselves, our attitude and perception. In a world of chaos and disorder, any "pattern" will sooner or later be abolished, forgotten or modernized.
