Hansel and Gretel´s House

The starting point of this work is the fairy tale of Hans and Gretel. In the history, two children have to face an unknown world. In a situation of loneliness, they have to become self sufficient to face the problem. The space of this unknown world is projected in a house of candies and chocolate, but this place is not what it looks like: the paradise becomes a threat.

Hans and Gretelʼs House is an installation specially conceived to a small and abandoned house located in the Virginʼs Gardens, new area of the Arsenale, inaugurated in the last 53. Bienalle di Venezia. The work is divided in the three rooms of the small house. Each room has a different proposal; the public enters the house by the first room and leaves it by the last room. The proposal was to establish poetic links between the spaces and that the public could have a different experience in each of the rooms and could experience the symbolic meanings of the history.