Photolumen - Lumen Galéria

Weekend houses pop up time and again in architecture’s history: their easiness and temporariness has always inspired architects, but also weekend houses adjusted to the architectural requirements of the given period of time. It was possible because of their spontaneous and flexible nature. In weekend houses meet two big dreams of modernity: free time, and mobility. Free time separates people’s days spent with work, and mobility tears them away from the habitual environment, and saves them from the context of everyday time and space. Weekend houses are tools and symbols at the same time: though they provide minimal defence, they imply free time-management and mobility. They offer the prestige for options.

This kind of freedom and possibilities are absent from the houses pictured in the series. Cosiness turns here into caducity and marginality. This pictures talk about failures, where promises of the weekend did not come true, broke off, or there was just no plan to be realized. Here, weekend’s disengagement, this state of freedom had changed into pressure; weekend itself had become a scene of banal struggles.