Between 2015 and 2019, artist Haiiileen transformed a Miami Beach home into Art House — a living installation that redefined the boundaries between art and life.
Part exhibition, part experiment, and part sanctuary, the project explored immersion, ritual, and participation as ways to transform everyday environments into emotional architectures.
Partnering with Perrier during Art Basel 2015, Haiiileen activated the space with light, reflective materials, and participatory installations — evolving the home into an ongoing dialogue between imagination and reality.
Title: Art House (2015–2019)
- Artist: Haiiileen
- Medium: Immersive Installation | Architectural Intervention | Social Participation | Living Artwork
- Location: 42nd Street & Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
- Dimensions: Site-Specific (Full Property)
- Year(s): 2015–2019
Description
Art House (2015–2019) was not simply a home — it was a living, breathing artwork.
Situated on 42nd Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, this site became a multi-layered experiment in immersion, participation, and transformation.
Originally launched as a collaboration with Perrier for Art Basel 2015, the project reimagined a domestic environment as a fully sensorial installation, where every inch of the property was activated by color, light, and conceptual design. Guests entered not just a home, but an evolving artwork — one that blurred the lines between daily life, performance, and artistic ritual.
Over the years, the house evolved into an Airbnb-based participatory space, hosting photoshoots, creative residencies, and art activations. Central to the project was The Giving Tree — a communal installation where visitors left tokens, wishes, and personal artifacts, contributing to the home’s living archive.
Through this immersive experiment, Haiiileen developed her philosophy of “multi-celled worlds” — environments that fuse architecture, psychology, and art into one total experience. Art House became a framework for her ongoing practice of transforming normalcy into imagination, embodying the artist’s belief that art is not an object but a lived condition.
“Art House was where I learned to dissolve the barrier between life and art — to live inside the work, to lose myself in it, and to find meaning in that surrender.”
Conceptual Framework
- Explores the home as an art organism, dissolving distinctions between domesticity and artistic creation.
- Centers on immersion, participation, and transformation as core artistic principles.
- Introduces the artist’s concept of “multi-celled worlds” — interconnected layers of expression, material, and emotion.
- Investigates ritual, repetition, and emotional conditioning within creative space.
- Integrates public and private participation through site-based installation, hospitality, and social exchange.
Archival Significance
- Represents one of Haiiileen’s earliest large-scale immersive living installations, predating major projects like LightScapes and Rainbow Castle.
- Marks the origin of the artist’s long-term exploration into environmental art, sensory experience, and emotional design.
- Served as a laboratory for experimentation, testing the intersection of art, architecture, and community participation.
- Directly influenced later large-scale projects, including Rainbow Oasiiis and Chroma Art Film Festival, through its emphasis on creative ecosystems.
- Functions as an autobiographical milestone — the artist’s “conditioning treatment” in immersive practice.
Archival ID: HQ-2015-AH-MB-01Image Madata
