Thresholds: Reimagining Domesticity, Labor, and Identity
Curated by Santina Amato
On view: September 6 – 28, 2025
Opening Reception & Performance: September 6, 6–8 PM
Artist Talks: September 20, 4–6 PM
Closing Reception: September 28, 3–6 PM
Location: PS122 Gallery, 150 1st Avenue, New York, NY
PS122 Gallery is pleased to announce “Thresholds: Reimagining Domesticity, Labor, and Identity,” a group exhibition curated by Santina Amato featuring multidisciplinary work by Santina Amato, Katya Grokhovsky, Woomin Kim, and Barbara Weissberger. This timely exhibition explores the intersections of domestic labor, material culture, gender, and personal identity through a rich array of sculpture, textile, photography, video, and performance.
In an era defined by economic instability, rising loneliness, and domestic precarity, “Thresholds” brings together four artists whose practices draw from the material and psychological realities of the domestic realm. Whether responding to family structures, labor, housing, or solitude, each artist uses their home as a site of inquiry, mining its messes, rituals, rhythms, and silences.
“Thresholds” invites viewers to consider the home not merely as a private refuge but as a charged site of negotiation, a threshold between visibility and invisibility, care and confinement, tradition and transformation. The artists draw on personal and cultural narratives to subvert the meanings of everyday domestic objects such as bread dough, discarded fabrics, furniture, and household remnants, infusing them with complex emotional and historical weight.
The exhibition opens with a durational performance by Santina Amato on September 6 from 6–8 PM, where the body becomes a tool of labor and reflection. Audiences are also invited to a public Artist Talk on September 20 (4–6 PM), where all four artists will discuss their processes, inspirations, and the political undercurrents of their practices. A Closing Reception on September 28 (3–6 PM) will mark the final opportunity to engage with the work and its themes in person.
Curated with a sensitivity to materiality and the symbolic resonance of domestic labor, “Thresholds” positions the home as a site of both containment and agency. The exhibition amplifies the voices of women artists who confront and reimagine the spaces and materials that shape everyday life. Through meticulous making, embodied action, and radical recontextualization, their works challenge viewers to see the domestic space as a site of confrontation and creation, far from a place of escapism or retreat.
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