Oblique Encounters of Domestic Space

In this "encyclopedia of domestic space," artist and author Annee Grøtte Viken enters a dialogue with the conventional spaces that surround us, the semiotic skin we call home. She uses her first love, literature, to imagine and give voice to the seemingly mute spaces we inhabit, collecting bits and pieces from the western canon and non-western counter-canon. 

Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's essay "The Carrier Bag Theory," which proposes a shift from the contained to the container, Viken moves through seven different archetypes of domestic space to find characters lying in baths, dreaming in beds and cooking in kitchens. By each time articulating the imagined voices of these spaces, she embarks on a poetic journey into the drifting island of home.

Designed by Benedetta Ferrari

Published by Set Margins’ publications, 2026

Softcover, 96 pages, 7 color images, 4.25 × 7 inches

ISBN: 978-9-08-353256-1