Márcia Correia

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House on Fire




2015
Faculdade de Belas Artes, Porto, PortugalHouse on Fire grew out of a collaboration between Sofia Almeida, Luisa Bemmerlein, and myself. First shown in 2015 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, the installation works as a stark metaphor for our collective need to reconnect with the planet—a domestic space cast as a house in flames.

Built from discarded wooden boards, the structure has a deliberately rough, improvised quality, held together without any rigid bonding systems. Its presence is heightened by the use of a smoke machine and LED lights, which flood the space with shifting beams and drifting haze, turning the “fire” into something both hypnotic and unsettling.

With this work, we invite viewers to sit with the uneasy tension between human behaviour and environmental survival, and to confront the uncomfortable truth that the house on fire is, in fact, our shared home.
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