Activated by human presence, homes are curated living spaces furnished with ideals, objects, and memories gleaned from individual life experience — but what does it mean to be living at home, and what influences our personal iterations of domestic time and space? MEAT-a-physics is an exhibition that pulls together the work of eight different MFA...
Activated by human presence, homes are curated living spaces furnished with ideals, objects, and memories gleaned from individual life experience — but what does it mean to be living at home, and what influences our personal iterations of domestic time and space? MEAT-a-physics is an exhibition that pulls together the work of eight different MFA candidate artists at the Lamar Dodd School of Art to answer this question of a predisposed reality turned askew, offering new perspectives and criticisms on what meanings the concept of domesticity continues to carry in the 21st Century. Existing as a partly-interactive collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and writing, MEAT-a-physics allows viewers to critically investigate the varied social histories associated with the concept of domesticity, and reimagines the home as an androgynous utopia that is welcome to all who wish to participate.
With a pattern of spatial organization that resembles the key elements of the contemporary domestic home, and visual content to match, MEAT-a-physics invites audiences to come in and stay for a while as they ponder and explore what the experienced idea of home living means to them, what it has meant for others before them, and what it will mean for those in the future. Calling on meat and the domestic object as a functional symbol for the individual, artists Brian George, Hannah Touissant, Hayden Maltese, Izzy Losskarn, Jana Ghezawi, Kate Luther, Rae Haight, and Sarah Bouchard put forth a visually diverse exhibition which calls on the viewer to reflect broadly across multiple lines of inquiry related to the conceptual interpretation of Western domesticity. MEAT-a-physics includes a collaborative art-lexicon created by the participating artists, which references ancient civilization glyph systems of language, for the purpose of providing audiences with a tangible and accessible description of the use of symbols across each artists’ work in the exhibition. Lexicons will be provided at the entrance for viewers to investigate and decode the ensemble of personal mythologies, social and cultural relationships, and the metaphysics of domesticity as they navigate throughout the gallery space and the world around them.
