Photos on Fridges @ Harkawik, NYC

Harkawik is delighted to announce Photos on Fridges, the widely anticipated follow-up to our 2022 Works on Paper on Fridges, and our final exhibition to employ household appliances as pedestals. The refrigerator occupies a peculiar position in modern life—simultaneously indispensable and invisible, a humming presence we notice almost exclusively when it breaks down. By introducing these appliances into the gallery as apparatus of display, the space of aesthetic contemplation is superimposed onto ordinary life—each made visible through the other, neither fully stable—the white cube and the home flickering in and out of legibility. The refrigerator disrupts the gallery’s fiction of neutrality, but only long enough to notice some of traditional photography’s closely-held rules.