These sculptural objects were presented in the solo show HOME, Athens, along side other works. Each series explores different notions of home and belonging, moving from personal memories to collective ideas of home and belonging as a physical and psychological space. The inevitable is a series of glasses - their lens pierced and punctuated - alludes to De Pasquale's own journey 'home'. Ideas of sanctuary and prison are equally suggested in De Pasquale's choice of materials, brutal everyday objects such as nails and concrete that recall the aesthetics of Arte Povera. Evocative, playful, and at times disturbing, HOME is an intimate and provocative interrogation of the individual, introspective journey to create a sense of belonging in an unstable and ever-changing world. As James Baldwin proposes in his 1956 novel, Giovanni’s Room: “perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”

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Photographed by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos​ 

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