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En suite art? London exhibition opens in an Airbnb

East End show highlights the ‘commodification of the domestic’ say the organisers

The Art Newspaper
10 January 2025
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Boz Deseo Garden, Hartman avec Sade (2023)
courtesy of the artist

Boz Deseo Garden, Hartman avec Sade (2023)
courtesy of the artist

The address for a new exhibition in London’s East End sounds just like an Airbnb address—which is exactly what it is. *New* Cosy 1 bed home | Shoreditch | Long Stays—a show co-organised by the curatorial platform Project Space and the private art collections company Wari Art—opens at Flat 3, St James Court, 331 Bethnal Green Road on 16 January (running until 9 March). “The exhibition, which is site specific and devoid of any ‘permanence’, serves as a disruption to the cyclical order of how Airbnb operates,” says a press statement, referencing the lettings giant which some consider to be a scourge of urban life today (Airbnb reminds us online that it has collected more than $10bn in tax since the business began in 2007). The show includes works by artists such as Benjamin Kellogg, Boz Deseo Garden, Charlotte Seux and Arthur Marie who presents the drawing Quasimodo, a “depiction of embodiment within unfamiliar space”, adds the statement. Visitors can pop in for a long (or short) stay.

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