THE LOUNGE

Curators: Natasha Chuk and Caterina Mallone


Curatorial Statement:

The Lounge is a presentation of work by six contributing creators and thinkers who uniquely probe the complexity of how we construct, inhabit, and share our living spaces. The space presented here collectively illustrates a collapse of one's personal and private living spaces and the objects that occupy them. Individually, each work invites users to engage in a unique experience of mediated access and contemplation.

The term "lounge" was selected to describe a broadly defined space of relaxation, exploration, creativity, production, and domesticity, from which a range of activities and the allusion to a complex system of memory and objects emerge. The shifting contexts of living spaces are addressed through new and purportedly obsolete media as a means of channeling the dizzyingly abstruse notion of imagined and realized spaces of dwelling and habitation.


Curators' Profile:

Natasha and Caterina are independent curators who frequently collaborate on interdisciplinary, multimedia projects. Together they aim to create spaces for exploration, contemplation, and dialogue through their curatorial efforts. Their interests in media exchange and the human body, and shared and individual spaces of memory, interaction, and social commentary are evident in the works they present. The Lounge marks their third collaborative exhibition.