The house we carry

The project takes as its starting point the long history of women’s work being dismissed as “craft” rather than “art.” Practices such as textile, ceramic, jewellery, or even domestic decoration were traditionally relegated to the private sphere, undervalued precisely because they were associated with women. This exhibition seeks to question and reclaim that boundary by showing how contemporary female artists use these so-called “craft” forms as powerful artistic languages.

To deepen this reflection, the exhibition will take the shape of an illusionary apartment inside the gallery. Women have historically been confined to the domestic space, expected to “make a home.” Instead of building walls, we will use simple spatial markers such as strips on the floor or a single evocative element to suggest different “rooms.” Each section will carry the poetic weight of a place in the home: the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room. Rather than reproducing an actual apartment, this will be a symbolic, fragmented home open, fluid, and charged with memory, irony, and resistance.

Artists: Juliette Lepage Boisdron, Pemanagpo, Giulia Seri, Rojin Shafiei, Fanie Simon, Nika Timashkova, Sylwia Zawiślak
Curator: Aleksandra Cegielska
Photos credits: Jakub Stachowiak