DOMESTIC BLISS

DOMESTIC BLISS
Dates: From 8 March 2019
Venue: Gallery 4

Domestic Bliss presents works from Glasgow Museums’ collection reflecting on this building’s history as a former house, Royal Exchange and civic space. Observing how artists work with fine art, design and craft practices alongside social and political changes, this show explores domestic labour and feminism, public and private space, intimate relationships and historical narratives. We live in a consumerist world where home interior, lifestyle magazines and social media present flawless examples for us to emulate in our own lives. What happens if we question what is seen as ‘domestic bliss’, and whose stories are hidden or revealed?

‘I want to make something that lives with the eye as a beautiful piece of art, but on closer inspection, a polemic or an ideology will come out of it’. Grayson Perry

You can watch the curator’s inroduction to the exhibition here and a video focussing on the corner cabinet of social history objects here.

IMAGE: Installation shot of Domestic Bliss. Photo Ruth Clark, 2019

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