Rachel Bown-Mayo

’Open plan living (And where to go from here)’ Is a living installation that began its journey from the confines of another covid-19 locked-down home, from a mind that found solace in unlikely fictions.
The work plays with the balance between utopian ideals and dystopian fears that are constantly explored in all forms of fiction. Directly influenced by video games such as ‘The last of us’, ‘Fallout’, movies such as ‘Annihilation’ And books such as ‘Day of the triffids’, this grass-upholstered space coins with the idea of nature taking over the domestic world as being something both grotesque and beautiful. Is it an intrusion? Is it just nature?