dollhouse

29th February 2020
an apartment in Bushwick
New York

Privacy is a relatively modern notion—a privilege that has been normalized into society as a right. Privacy feels necessary as a form of escape from the outside and provides a moment to recompose. On the rare day of February 29, a private apartment is opened up to strangers for an evening of willing dispossession. dollhouse is this exploration of the home as a physical and conceptual space. The exhibition is comprised of spacial interventions, installations and performances that challenge the sanctity of the home as a private space.

Through a practice of addition and displacement, the exhibition presents processes of surveillance, confessional objects and abject bodies. Strangers enter the familiar in an unfamiliar setting and the artists become physically and emotionally vulnerable in a place that promises comfort. dollhouse enables an intimate dynamic between the voyeur entering a foreign space and the tenant to whom that space belongs. Both are seeking assimilation into the home and yet neither is comfortable with the other present.

Participating artists: vic, rol orke, Rui, anna scola