Comfort is an exhibition aimed at being an ode to the front room. The main inspiration for the project has been a continued interest in domestic spaces, in particular the mantelpiece and armchairs of a traditional ‘front room’. In reaction to Rachel Hurdley’s book Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture (2013), I am interested in exploring my own memories of domestic space. The project aims to explore how the front room of our homes can become social performances, demonstrating the extent to which the apparently ‘private experiences of the self’ are manifested by means of displaying objects and domestic artefacts.
This is a project born out mainly of my own interest in my childhood and nostalgia. Having found a vault full of family pictures (listed below) I am interested in how I can immortalise these experiences in drawing and objects within the physical space of the Jedna Dva Tri Gallery. The project intends to communicate with the viewer, making them reflect on their own memories of their own domestic spaces. It aims to trigger memory responses, through interacting with drawing, objects and casts of objects.
The project seeks to explore this idea that objects placed within domestic space have a special sort of magic, of watching and looking. They are daily witnesses to our domestic lives. What Alice Munro called the ‘treachery is the other side of dailiness”.