Living Room, San Francisco, 2017/2018
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Nolle's work complex Living Room addresses the ever-increasing discrepancy between rich and poor and examines far-reaching socio-political changes and the dynamics of exclusion and gentrification using the example of housing. The project began in San Francisco in 2017 and has been working on its continuation in Berlin since 2019. The typological study shows temporary dwellings of homeless people in the living rooms of wealthy people. In developing the project, she works with homeless people to understand how their improvised shelter is constructed. To reconstruct the buildings, she uses materials that she finds or swaps on the street and then arranges them in a performative act in a wealthy environment. Detached from their original surroundings, the dwellings resemble sculptural structures and reveal the creative power of their owners. The staged photograph serves her as a method of investigation that is able to bring together economic conditions that could not be more different in one image. The series thus provides insights into social spheres that, despite their contrasts, often remain equally hidden. Living Room is related to Nolle's general artistic interest in expressing the social construction of a "home" as well as the complexity of unhoused living and exploring the associated class relations and spatial politics.