Home Sweet Home is a promise of peace, warmth, and safety – an idiomatic phrase that circulates through interiors like a spell, printed on plaques by the door, placed above the sofa, cut out of plywood and set on a dresser. Part decoration, part amulet. It is meant not only to adorn, but also to act – to soothe and reinforce the belief that home is a safe place.
In his latest works, Kacper Tomaszewski examines this promise. He asks what it is actually made of and how it materializes. Yet he is not interested solely in the decorative layer, but in the concrete mechanisms that produce safety: keys, door handles, metal shutters, curtains. These familiar, everyday objects build a relationship between inside and outside, revealed through acts of closing, covering, and filtering. They establish boundaries, separate, sometimes simply enclose. And it is precisely through these simple gestures that safety ceases to be just a slogan and becomes something real.