TRAVELLING WITH MY INFLATABLE ROOM | ANA REWAKOWICZ  
05.10.2004 | 06.10.2004

The Travelling with my inflatable room project explores the concepts of belonging and mobility. During the fall of 2004, Ana travelled in a van carrying the inflatable room and setting it up at different urban (local parks, plazas, parking lots) and rural locations across Canada in order to live out of it during that time.

As a person who has moved from one culture to another, Ana is interested in the issue of transience and how it relates to the notions of identity, belonging and living in a society of fast moving globalization and technological developments. In 2001 Ana took a rubber latex mould of a room from her previous apartment in Montréal and constructed an external support structure in order to inflate the entire piece. Moving and traveling from place to place, she became aware of empty rooms as spaces that resonate with stories and feelings and recall a fleeting sense of being located somewhere but not belonging. Nothing is near or far in the world today. Being abroad no longer means being away from home. By creating a 'personal, portable' room, Ana wanted to reflect upon these circumstances and connect the ideas of ‘home’ and  ‘nomadism’. The latter denies the dream of a homeland, with the result that home, being portable, is available everywhere.

Travelling with my inflatable room reflects on these ideas and combines her personal experience with the utopian notions of discovery and pioneering; values upon which the history of North America was built.