Kitchen Drawer Gallery
Kitchen Drawer Gallery is an intimate rotating exhibition space that takes up residence within an available drawer in the host’s house. It is not a space apart, but a space within. A creative womb within the home, enmeshed in life. Kitchen Drawer Gallery takes its cue from similar alternative exhibition spaces such as the Terrain Biennial, Barely Fair, or Womanhouse. By siting a gallery inside the homes of volunteers, all participants (the artist, the host, and the audience) are invited to reimagine the role that art can play in a genuinely quotidian space. Hosts may come across the gallery accidentally during their everyday lives: during the day while a toddler is playing, in the evening while a family pet is sniffing for crumbs, in the middle of the night while fixing a snack.
This gallery also offers a radical reimagining of what it means for artwork to be accessible. In visiting this gallery, there is no need to expose oneself to the public gaze, nor is there any need to find childcare, to set aside financial resources, to move one’s schedule around opening hours or to worry about physical constraints. Kitchen Drawer Gallery exists in close proximity to its audience. Hosts can access the work at any time of day, for any reason. They can touch the work, smell it, even destroy it if they so choose. While fewer people may ultimately experience the work shown in this exhibition space, those that do experience it will have a more intimate relationship to the work; a relationship unmediated by the requirements and expectations present in a traditional contemporary art gallery.
For information about how to host Kitchen Drawer Gallery or participate as an artist, please check out the FAQ: https://bit.ly/KDG_FAQ