An abode is far from a neutral space—it is the final frontier of autonomy from an ‘outside’ world where everything is monitored. This screening programme brings together moving image works that capture the dense realities within the four walls we live in, transforming the personal space into a radical landscape. Within these domestic boundaries, boundless worlds take shape, shifting from playgrounds of dreams to sites of grief.

With a fluid, ‘flying’ hand, Jiang Zhi’s Fly, Fly (1997) navigates a cramped Beijing apartment and the monochrome reality of an artist struggling to break free from a precarious life. Han Okhi’s Three Mirrors (1975) follows a woman exploring her body and existence in her home, finding a radical freedom often denied in the public sphere. The right to privacy is contested in Shu Lea Cheang’s Coming Home (1995), where a lesbian couple’s search for a place to call their own is as tricky as a game of hanafuda. Nalini Malani’s Still Life (1969) quietly catalogues mundane objects in the artist’s residence, accentuating the restless, intimate motions of domestic routine. The programme concludes with Lan Yi-Tzu’s The Horse (2023), in which a young woman’s fixation on an apartment is finally dissolved by an unlikely intruder.