Dwelling, a group exhibition featuring artists Yifan Jiang, Charlotte Keates, Iva Kinnaird, Yushi Li, Gus Monday and Tim Wilson, explores how the construction of space is inherently linked with the concept of ‘dwelling’. Taking as a starting point German Philosopher Martin Heidegger’s 1971 book Poetry, Language, Thought, the exhibition presented by Meeting Point Projects explores Heidegger’s belief that “Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.”
Heidegger’s essay Building Dwelling Thinking from his book Poetry, Language, Thought, examines the role of art and architecture in everyday life, and the effect of our surroundings on our psyche. Inspired by Heidegger’s concept of “dwelling” presented in his essays “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”, Meeting Point Projects’ thoughtful curation of Dwelling is designed to explore the domestic environment as a means through which the identities of people and artworks are expressed. The relationship between human beings and their environments is frequently explored in phenomenology where the processes of finding, creating, and dwelling in spaces are seen as fundamental to our existence and the production of meaning. Amongst spaces that house us, the inhabiting of home is something that is both the most universal and the most intimate.
Meeting Point Projects is collaborating with RIBA-registered architecture and interior design practice Studio Ūma on the Dwelling exhibition, which will transform the gallery space into an immersive living room-with design objects from Le Corbusier, Finn Juhl, and Hans Wegner. Visitors will be able to enter the exhibition as if transported into a private home, blurring the lines between domestic and public consumption of art, contemplating the intersection of art and space, and the role of art in forming private identities and collective experiences.
Meeting Point Projects are transforming 67 York Street Gallery in London’s Marylebone into an immersive environment with the curation and contextualization of the featured artworks. Dwelling is the second exhibition for Meeting Point Projects, following its inaugural show earlier in 2024, and will run from 16th September to 4th October, 2024.
Responding to the term ‘dwelling’, this exhibition questions how spaces foster ‘domesticity’. Across motifs such as furniture items, interior environments, and architectural structures, artworks in the show examine domesticity as a network of intangible and accumulative qualities such as conditioned behaviours, memories, and nostalgia. Rather than a physical location, artworks observe places that facilitate complex social functions and reveal its occupant’s sense of self and relations with the external world. At the same time, as the art ‘dwells’ in the domestic space, the domestic space also ‘dwells’ in the art.
As part of the exhibition’s events programme, Meeting Point Projects is hosting three supper clubs in The Royal Oak across the street from the gallery in collaboration with three different independent food creators/chefs with a focus on ‘home cooking’. The supper clubs are treated as another ‘medium’ through which the exhibition explores its theme, namely, the domesticity of cuisine and how it is used to pass down cultural identities, traditions, memories, and systems of knowledge.
Meeting Point Projects is a curatorial initiative dedicated to gathering, discovering and living with contemporary art, culture, and cuisine. Its programme of exhibitions and dining events focuses on highlighting the dialogue between artists, makers, and creatives from diverse cultural backgrounds, at different stages of careers, and across various disciplines. Founded by London-based independent curator Matilda Liu, Meeting Point Projects has an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, seeking to bridge the theoretical frameworks within contemporary art with other creative mediums, expanding the critical contexts in which art and culture can be shown and engaged with.
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Dwelling is at 67 York Street Gallery in Marylebone, London from 16th September to 4th October, 2024.
