Fellow Focus: Ilana Harris-Babou: One Bad Recipe

In One Bad Recipe, MAD’s Summer 2017 Van Lier Fellow Ilana Harris-Babou combines video and ceramic sculpture for an abject exploration of the American Dream, defined by the increasingly shaky notion that hard work, entrepreneurialism, and ingenuity will amount to upward mobility in the always uncertain future. For her Fellow Focus exhibition, Harris-Babou creates a hybrid space that is equal parts kitchen and toolshed, examining how an artist’s studio might be similar to other, domestic spaces of creation.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.