Kobi Levi x Shelter, 2020.
This shoe was made for the Shoes Have Names exhibition in collaboration with Jo Cope and Shelter UK which uses the power of craft to bring awareness to the individuals who face homelessness and eviction each day.
Home Void – A home is a basic necessity everyone should have.
A home is both a place you belong to and a personal sanctuary, where you are safe and can have your own privacy and peace. In our society a place you can call home becomes a property first, a part of the economic game rather than a natural right for everybody.
Economy is an important part of modern society which has positive aspects to it, but does it have to erase certain rights like being able to afford a place to live? In the reality of so many people being without a place to live, or close to it, the ‘rules of the game’ need to be rethought.
When making this shoe, in which I was paired with Shelter Charity as the inspiration, I considered that a home is a very subjective term to define with a shape and form.
I decided to take out a generic home symbol from the shoes to create a void, showing that we assume a home is something that should be there for everyone.
Photo by Dan Lowe/Kobi Levi.
