Des-Habitat do-it-yourself Barbara Ess

Barbara Ess

Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges

Amanda Harlech

Featuring all-new candid interviews

he creates graphic artwork of total uniqueness

Des-Habitat do-it-yourself Barbara EssDes Habitat interrogates the ways in which Indigenous arts and crafts appeared within discourses and imaginaries of modernity through the lens of Habitat, the arts and design magazine created by architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1950. Instead of the content shown in the images of Indigenous objects, more the project interrogates the context from which they emerged as signifiers of modernity in Habitat, examining how Habitat itself, by virtue of its language