The Yellow Wallpaper

Incubator is pleased to present The Yellow Wallpaper, an exhibition bringing together twelve artists previously exhibited with Incubator or MAMA, a nomadic platform that showcases the work of women artists, including Kesewa Aboah, Shanti Bell, Suzanne Clements, Fleur Dempsey, Xingxin Hu, Lorena Levi, Florence Reekie, Anna Rocke, Elinor Stanley, Mary Stephenson and Maayan Sophia Weisstub.

Taking its title from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal 1892 short story, the exhibition explores the interior as a site of paradox: at once confinement and creation, intimacy and estrangement, resistance and release. The artists approach the interior not as a backdrop, but as subject.

From Womanhouse (1972), where artists transformed an abandoned home into a stage for critique, to Women House (2016), which revisited questions of spatial power and gender for a new generation, the interior has long served as a site of both limitation and invention. The Yellow Wallpaper continues this trajectory.