Encapsulated Stories
Collaboration between Elena Khurtova, Virginie Rebetez and Marie Ilse Bourlanges
Residency program at HMK {Hotel Maria Kapel} in Hoorn, NL
2011
Encapsulated Stories deals with the physical and fictional history of architecture, and of HMK’s architecture in particular: HMK’s guesthouse was an orphanage and a monastery. The adjacent Maria Chapel functioned as a Catholic Church, ammunition storage and a Protestant Church.
In executing their physical research on HMK, Bourlanges, Khurtova and Rebetez are dedicated as a ‘forensic team on a crime scene’, searching for tactile traces of stories of HMK’s previous users and residents.