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With her new body of work, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi plunges right into the heart of the contradictions pervading housing issues today. By using found photography to reproduce the interiors of luxury skyscrapers and superimpose them on private interiors, she intertwines these disparate spaces. Members of her own entourage and family slip into these palimpsests, too, taking the place of the real estate agency models sketched in silhouette. The artist envisages luxury apartments occupied by real people—and, too, her own ideal live-work space. Among Kazi’s image sources is a project by photographer Dominique Nabokov, who has spent years photographing the domestic interiors of players in the “cultural industries.” Here, in several metropolises around the globe, the camera serves to satisfy a certain voyeuristic curiosity; indeed, Nabokov goes so far as to cite in each caption the inhabitant’s name and occupation—for she regards the work as a series of portraits. These photographs oscillate between a perfect mise-en-scene of art and design objects and a meticulous mapping of everyday gestures of care and affection for those objects. Extract Text by Claire Hoffmann

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