Home-Play
Back"Home-Play" is a photographic project initiated during the containment period in response to COVID-19. It consists of images taken in the artist's living space, a shared house in the Terdelt district of Brussels, where Lucas Leffler lives with other roommates. The images generated by this project come from a desire to reinvent reality, to create and play, they have no other pretensions. Frivolity, recreation and joking describe this behavior that seeks to change the function of everyday objects, to reconfigure a place that we are used to seeing every day. In this sense, this project is not a diary recounting the experience of a period of quarantine or isolation. "Home-Play" is a game. As in all games, rules are necessary for its
its functioning:
- reinvent the everyday,
- without leaving the house,
- and only with the things available.
These rules were non-negotiable during quarantine, but I continue to follow them today as a working protocol. The theses became a logical boundary necessary to develop a coherent system, an organized structure. So this project did not end with the end of the confinement. It is always in progress and no end is envisaged for the moment. The confusion of the perception of flatness, the bizarre details of a structure or the wonder of a luminous atmosphere are some examples of photographic forms that reveal themselves from everyday life. Some of these still lifes, scenes and installations were staged, others were moments captured without intervention. Some were imagined and conceptualized in advance, others appeared suddenly by the happy coincidence of an experimental process.