Notorious Possession
Notorious Possession is an art piece make by Olga Koumoundouro, which features an unused house that she broke into and turned it into a living, breathing art space.
What I found interesting about this piece was the fact that Olga didn't in fact own the house at all, she just saw that it was not in use and just sitting around, so she decided to paint the exterior gold, and the inside rainbow. Whats so interesting about this piece is the message of home foreclosures and economics, which is one of the reasons Olga decided to paint the house gold. Olga also reminds me of the Occupy movement, and her ideas and art reflect a lot about current affairs and the distribution of wealth.
Olga's usage of unused spaces and making them her own is interesting to me since we live in such an organized society where we all are governed by our wealth which tells us where we eat and sleep. Olga however broke normal conventions of possession and trespassing rules when she saw this unused home, and decided to make it her own studio for art.
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