‘Inhabiting the Vitrine’ is an ongoing curatorial research and open-ended archive exploring notions of domesticity in relationship to design, architecture and gender during the years of the Swedish social democratic regime, also known as the ‘Folkhemmet’, or People’s Home (1930-1975), as well as their traces in subsequent developments. It explores curatorial notions of domesticity in 20th century Sweden as ‘inhabited monumental displays’ that functioned as an extension of state authority and morale in order to develop modern, gendered, white notions of citizenship around the idea of ‘Swedishness’.
Here, architecture is thought of as an ‘apparatus’: a system formed by an array of tangible and intangible components which mediates between embodied subjects, objects, emotions, identities, and territories: it is an interface with immense biopolitical power.
