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Autumn at Grazer Kunstverein
24 September – 20 November 2020

Emma Wolf-Haugh
Domestic Optimism, Act One: Modernism – A Lesbian Love Story

Soft opening: Thursday 24 September, 3–7pm
Opening hours: Wednesday–Friday, 11am–6pm

Domestic Optimism is an exhibition about mangled and mistold modernist legacies. The project begins with furniture, inanimate objects that come loaded with social connections and invisible histories. Through the displacement of cultural detritus Emma Wolf-Haugh retells modernist architectural history in the collective key of queer-feminist and decolonial practices, continually unearthing filth in times of hygiene, and complicating things that were never simple to begin with.

Wolf-Haugh is a visual artist and educator. Weaving together installation, performance, publishing and collaborative workshop techniques, she is interested in reorienting attention towards cultural narratives by developing work from a questioning of ‘what is missing’. Her work is informed by how spaces, identities and social relations are generated temporarily in theatre, drag performance and queer DIY club scenes, via aesthetic and somatic practices.

For this exhibition colonial aesthetics, obscenity trials, hysterical masculinity, crime scene photography, sexology, the production of the lesbian throughout modernity and the current collapse of social housing projects, all intersect in a critical, queer, working class reading of architectural and design modernism. The project underscores the importance of solidarity, friendship and collectivity, for our communion and survival in the world today.

Domestic Optimism is co-produced with Project Arts Centre, Dublin, where Act Two of the project will be presented in early 2021.

Emma Wolf-Haugh, Still from new film work, Domestic Optimism, Act One: Modernism – A Lesbian Love
Story, 2020