Zoé Strecker, is displaying video and sculptures at the Zephyr Gallery in Louisville as part of Project 4: …sweet Home. This exhibition is curated by Dima Strakovsky and includes seven Kentucky and Indiana artists . The show runs through October 25. Louisville’s First Friday Trolley Hop date is October 3, from 6-9 pm.
The show ends with an estate sale event on October 26 from noon to 6 pm during which the art objects will be sold alongside the furnishings installed by the curator to reference a domestic “home” space.
An excerpt from the curator’s statement:
Instead of showing works in a traditional gallery setting, we turn to the place that Zephyr Gallery once was – a house. Houses are complicated places to view artworks since in these spaces’ interior design logic often clashes with artistic choices. Galleries are a lot more “neutral” and convenient. We often talk around or willfully ignore this particular problem but in …sweet Home, we quite directly enter into it!
In the weeks prior to the show, the gallery space will be populated by furniture and several of the artists are invited to expand on this setting via installation works. The gallery will get a makeover as a living space. Second group of artists will populate the “domesticated” exhibition with objects that speak to a variety of labor practices present in Kentucky context. Craft, material, gender, geography – these are our building blocks in …sweet Home. By playfully arranging them in the space of the domestic, we can truly engage the local color and cultural imagination.
For more information see the Zephyr Gallery website.
