Living Rooms - Sam Johnson-Schlee Porter uncovers new evidence about

Porter uncovers new evidence about his subjects

an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing

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‘The art of a chair is not its resemblance to art

The juxtaposition of these views gives rise to a new discourse on the forms and structures of collective and pictorial memory

Living Rooms - Sam Johnson-Schlee Porter uncovers new evidence aboutIn this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our homes, and their underlying reality. Living Rooms blends history, theory, and memoir as it moves between the colonial trade in house plants, Proustian reminiscence, and razor sharp critique of rentier capitalism. Johnson Schlee suggests that, by looking closely at the places where we live, we can confront political realities