The House as a Portrait
Patrick Bill, the set designer that I visited this week suggested this as a helpful reference for my project in terms of nesting buildings inside one another.
Semi-detached by Michael Landy
Exhibition, Tate Britain 2004
For his piece Semi-Detached the artist Michael Landy re-created a copy of the house where his father lives. He copied it in every detail, right down to the bits of flaking paint. This work of art acts like a portrait: a portrait of his father as a house.
Here is a video about its construction within the space of the museum:
