05/26/2026
Richard Hoeck and John Miller’s Mannequin Death, 2016 beautifully installed in The Happiness Project: Episode 3 Hearth and Home curated by José Freire at Galleria Zero, Milan.
“Hearth and Home is an installation that attempts to replicate, in skeletal form, a domestic setting — the gallery acting as a minimalist stage set for a piece of Brechtian theater. There are chairs, lighting fixtures, vases, vanity mirrors, and other objects of interior design. The works on view, however, are hardly props. Although they sometimes echo the real in their form, or physically incorporate functional items, they remain fictive. The placement of the works — which include sculpture, painting, photography, and video — across the two floors of Zero... generates a jagged, paratactic meaning, leaving viewers to connect these points of signification to each other and to the exhibition’s motif: to follow its hermeneutic line. An unimpeded passage through the space, permitting us to read its works in whatever order suits, allows for the unraveling of its weave of concerns.”
One of the edition of 7 of the Hoeck / Miller installation is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This work was shown in the gallery in 2016 along with a series of accompanying photo works.
Also featuring work by Lizzi Bougatsos, Sylvie Fleury, Christian Holstad, Elisabeth Kley, Liam Neff, Kayode Ojo, Patrick Sarmiento, Dash Snow and Nicole Wermers through July 24th.
Don’t miss this show if you are in Milan this spring….
Photos: © Roberto Marossi. Courtesy of Galleria Zero, Milan.
