"Habitat (Some Pleasures and Discomforts of Domestic Life)" Exhibition

Twenty First Gallery

poster for "Habitat (Some Pleasures and Discomforts of Domestic Life)" Exhibition

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Following a collaboration with Cumulus Studios in 2009, presenting a selection of outdoor functional objects designed by artists Liam Gillick, John Bock and Aaron Young, among others, the design and limited edition furniture gallery pursues its interest in contemporary art and invites Béatrice Gross, independent curator, to organize its next exhibition.
Concerned topically with the representation of domesticity, Habitat reflects on the decorative mission of a design gallery, while examining, en abîme, the intimate commodification and institutionalization of private interiors. With the ambivalence of a family reunion, the exhibition conjures up various orders and disorders of the domestic apparatus: from daily rituals of bliss and labor to religious narcissism; from visionary corners to staged domestication; from diminished bodies to literary heroes; from polar confinements to the Gates of Hell…

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