House of Love
Shelby Duncan
House of Love is a photographic and narrative project by Shelby Duncan that documents a creative community formed within a house in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, between 2009 and 2015. Presented here for the first time as an exhibition, the project reveals both a living environment and a constructed world, where the house becomes a site of creativity and vulnerability, bringing together artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
Immersed within this community, Duncan adopts an “inside-out” perspective, blurring the boundary between observer and participant. The images capture moments of intimacy, spontaneity, and shared presence, shaped by trust and proximity. Photography is combined with ephemeral materials and personal archives to evoke the atmosphere of the house and its constantly evolving community.
House of Love documents a creative ecosystem that existed before the dominance of social media, grounded in spontaneous intimacy and direct human connection. The work preserves a nostalgic vision of unguarded presence, creative becoming, togetherness, and genuine love.
The project explores youth, freedom, and the conditions that foster creative emergence, while tracing the formation of a collective memory.
curators Shelby Duncan, Nicolas Huet Greub
main partners 37.2, La Hune, YellowKorner, LabKorner, Everest
partners Processus, Agence PAM
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Adress
Foundation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
18 rue de la Calade 13200 Arles
OPENING HOURS
Currently closed to the public.
© Foundation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
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