The common themes of transportation, infrastructure, networks and architecture featured in t.w.five’s work mirrors their shared experience of immigration. Emigrating from Sweden and Brazil, both members of t.w.five have now lived in the United States longer than they had lived in their countries of origin. What then does it mean to be an alien or green card holder? To be a citizen? To be home?
Questions of home and its role as private domain informed the construction of this installation. t.w.five purposefully leaves the windows open to reveal scenes of domestic life. The private space of “home” is destabilized, as viewers can peer through the windows. Alternating between creating work in the studio and murals on the street or in office spaces, t.w.five often engages this gray area between public and private space.