Hosting: Home Truths is an interactive exhibition and event that draws together contemporary spatial practice with archival materials, interrogating the legacies of labour, care, and control which inform our domestic ecologies.
A series of edible installations, video works and cartographies play out these ideas within the Blender Studios Gallery Space, drawing on research that analyses archival materials relating to The Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy. These not-so-distant legacies of women’s work, and ‘housewifery’ are interrogated as a primary device of constructing home environments in Australia’s domestic interiors. This work will trace and digest the boundaries and intermingling’s that are built up through our everyday habits, routines, and rituals that define our sense of home, of self, of world: both interior and beyond.
The launch event will use the table as the centre of this activity, the landing ground that draws together bodies, bread, and bowl. The designers invite you in to engage with the transformation, containment, and consumption of these bodies, leavened and otherwise, as they are held at the level of the table.
This exhibition and launch event draws together the design research of D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé with the food styling and culinary research of Kate Foster, exploring and engaging the crossovers in their expertise and respective practices.
