Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. (Herman Melville, Moby Dick)

For this project Alexa Reid worked on the scenographic fine detail for this site-specific installation at 87 Hackford Rd, in which the house itself became and object, the project was authored by Artist Saskia Olde Wolbers as an ArtAngel commission.

“What traces of lives can a place contain? In Brixton, London, a blue plaque on the front of an innocuous terraced house commemorates a past resident — a young man by the name of Vincent van Gogh. The sign was erected after a local postman traced the artist to the property (resident from 1873 until 1874) whilst taking advantage of a postal strike in the 1970s; its installation saved not only the house but much of the surrounding area from demolition.

Since the last tenants departed in 2012, the property stood empty but then two years later Saskia Olde Wolbers opened the front door once more. Frustrating the desire to uncover a history of one man's time in the house, the artist wove a fictional narrative from the accounts of oral histories, press archives and literary works, and presented visitors with one particular narrative that enabled the space to speak its past.” https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/yes-these-eyes-are-the-windows/

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37027