This is a double sided accordion fold photobook over eight metres long and made up of 104 polaroid photographs drawn from the work When We Win Lotto. / Nice Car. Can’t Sleep In It.
When We Win Lotto
For as long as I can remember my Mother and I have looked at houses—houses that are quaint and humble, and houses that are excessive and bold—and she has said to me, When we win lotto. I am now 40 years old. We are yet to win lotto. And we are yet to own a house.
And I catch myself looking at houses and saying the same phrase to my son.
Nice Car. Can’t Sleep In It.
For as long as I can remember my Mother’s core criteria for a good car is one that you can sleep in. Nice Car. Can’t Sleep In It. She says this with cheek—a way of dissing fancy small cars and offering a counter ode to a spirit of adventure and agility shaped by road trips and camping. But there is an undercurrent to this too, one fuelled by a life time of persistent housing precarity.
She is now 64 years old. Women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing group to experience homelessness in Australia.
The work and the publication were made as part of A Deceptively Simple Need—a larger ongoing body of work by Alana Hunt first shown at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 17 October - 21 December 2025.
design: Public Office, Naarm (Melbourne)
printing: Kaushik Ramaswamy at Mehal Print Services, New Delhi
published by Borderline Books 2025, the self-publishing imprint of Alana Hunt
dimensions: 10cm high x 819 cm long, folded into box measuring 4.8cm x 10.8cm x 13cm
Made with the support of the Copyright Agency’s Partnerships Commission in collaboration with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
This is a double sided accordion fold photobook over eight metres long and made up of 104 polaroid photographs drawn from the work When We Win Lotto. / Nice Car. Can’t Sleep In It.
When We Win Lotto
For as long as I can remember my Mother and I have looked at houses—houses that are quaint and humble, and houses that are excessive and bold—and she has said to me, When we win lotto. I am now 40 years old. We are yet to win lotto. And we are yet to own a house.
And I catch myself looking at houses and saying the same phrase to my son.
Nice Car. Can’t Sleep In It.
For as long as I can remember my Mother’s core criteria for a good car is one that you can sleep in. Nice Car. Can’t Sleep In It. She says this with cheek—a way of dissing fancy small cars and offering a counter ode to a spirit of adventure and agility shaped by road trips and camping. But there is an undercurrent to this too, one fuelled by a life time of persistent housing precarity.
She is now 64 years old. Women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing group to experience homelessness in Australia.
The work and the publication were made as part of A Deceptively Simple Need—a larger ongoing body of work by Alana Hunt first shown at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 17 October - 21 December 2025.
design: Public Office, Naarm (Melbourne)
printing: Kaushik Ramaswamy at Mehal Print Services, New Delhi
published by Borderline Books 2025, the self-publishing imprint of Alana Hunt
dimensions: 10cm high x 819 cm long, folded into box measuring 4.8cm x 10.8cm x 13cm
Made with the support of the Copyright Agency’s Partnerships Commission in collaboration with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
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