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This mixed media work made of gouache, ink and collage is a part of the series “Pret à porter, clef en main ». The title is a play on words that implies that real-estate speculation has rendered the dwelling superficial; something easily acquired and then discarded like a cheap piece of clothing. But beyond this ironic commentary these images are meant to suggest a breakdown between the interior and the exterior, the past and the present. I want to evoke buildings that keep traces of their inhabitants and vice versa, people who contain a memory of a dwelling within them.