Julie de Waroquier’s Inhabit is the exploration of homes and how they influence us. More specifically she describes the idea of her work as such, “We live between walls, but they inhabit us back; they contribute to building our identity. Moving indeed unsettles a whole way of life.” Initially the series appears as a list of aesthetics and it mostly is. Yet there are a few images in this series that are more successful conceptually. At the forefront is the use of lines from the light, floors, furniture and the cutting of the image into a triangle. Varied are the lines from diagonal to curvilinear. Most of the series includes deep shadows that cut of the information of the environment. The commercial clean look is a result of the triangular shaped images on top of white rectangular and square shapes. Additionally, the triangle shape that cuts up the images creates a rigidness to each of them. Color wise the palette is mostly blue and white but there are a few images that are warmer. One group of images that are more successful dynamically, are the ones with the body parts extending past the triangle. The couple if images that are more successful conceptually are the ones with her body contracting in some way right along the edges of the triangle because it lends to the idea of the home as a being and containing power over its inhabitants. This idea can also be extended to the fact that her face is subdued or hidden in every image.
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