Installation shot of Team B’s immersive installation, “Model Unit,” (2018) a full-scale representation of a young professional urban loft apartment in a gentrifying neighborhood. Marketing imagery and ‘model units’ are staged and filled with stock entourage to imply a certain lifestyle, and thus, a desired tenant. In this way, architects as visualizers of un-built work are complicit with gentrification - projecting imagery that appeals to specific socio-cultural consumers.
mission statement
Since 2018 houseguest has served as an independent, non-commercial gallery located within the living room of artist, Megan Bickel. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, the space holds five-six exhibitions a year exploring & questioning various topics relevant to the zeitgeist. Here, artists, architects, and sometimes musicians are encouraged to interact with and activate the room that serves as a half-way mark between a DIY house gallery and a white-cube space, all while exploring new ideas and concepts, with full control over what they create.
Until March of 2020 when impacts of Covid-19 began to impact us all in the U.S, each exhibition was partnered with a small SUPPERCLUB lab dinner, designed and led by her then partner, Jacob Wilson, as well as occasionally with collaborating chefs from around the region. The archive for this project can be found here.