“Grandma’s House”
Concept |
The sun beams in through the window filtered through laced curtains. Staring up at the ceiling, the fan blades spin in hypnotic synchronicity. The pile of the rug conforms to your body under your weight on the floor. Wafts of supper cooking saunter from kitchen. Moments pass as steadily as the grandfather clock tick-tocks resound through the hallway. Time makes these walls feel smaller. At what point does a home become just a house?
Grandma’s House ponders the history and memories archived within the furniture and objects in our homes that connect us to the sentimentality of time passed. The comfort and solace we find inside our living space reconfigures into our reflection that bears witness to our most vulnerable moments. Forêt reminisces on the mystification of her youth, spent in the sun room of her grandmother’s home, nestled in the Bible Belt of rural Alabama. The state of our nation today compels us to return to the childlike curiosity, tenderness and splendor we experienced in our grandmother’s home.
Bio |
Sarah Forêt was born and raised in rural Alabama. Inspired by the duality between southern domesticity and the humdrum of a metropolitan lifestyle, she makes connections between public and private spaces. Communicating with high camp and humor, she tells surreal stories of her childhood, her present, and an imagined dystopian future. She thrives in the expanded field of fashion, thinking of garments not as merely static but as performances and avant-garde expression of the Self. Forêt has recently interned in the studio of Adam Selman and has designs featured in Bricks magazine and a guest editorial in Crux magazine.