un/comforts

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un/comforts centers around the privacy and intimacy of domestic space and the instinct to withdraw when faced with uncertainty. For many, the home is an identity, something wholly personal and curated to fit one’s needs and comforts. For many others, especially those underrepresented in America, the home can act as a material symbol of inequality and a constant reminder of class. Home can be as broad as a country or as specific as a bed; and can evoke feelings both of dread and of ecstasy. Exploring both the physical and less tangible qualities that constitute a home, un/comforts calls into question what everyday life looks like under lockdown and how 9 individuals learned to self-actualize within it.

un/comforts is the deeply personal realization that we must prepare for an absurd future rather than a hopeful one. These pieces assert their autonomy as objects while remaining embedded in the environment around them. And this environment, the home is the place where we are most ourselves, the frame of humanity, the stage for personal dramas and a venue for profound pain and pleasure. Isolated within its walls, we are forced to grapple with our bodies, our thoughts and our most destructive patterns once again pulled to the surface.

Through figures, weavings and form, un/comforts presents a non-linear exploration of the familiar space. Existing beyond the habitual structure, “home” can be as physical as an object or as abstract as a memory. Who are we when we’re alone? Where do we return to? How do we interpret our pain, pleasure, loneliness, fears, heartbreak, growth and evolution? With work created over the past year and in the past months of isolation, un/comforts looks to understand both the sustaining and distressing nature of “home” and the intimacy and privacy it preserves.

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