Home & Hearth
MICA Pinkard Gallery, 2018
Artist Statement
Works in Home & Hearth are reflections of common domestic objects. By adapting these forms and creating new context for these objects, Home & Hearth reframes their focus from utility to critique of traditional gender roles. By remaking items like a clorox bottle, frying pan, and cleaning sponges as porcelain art objects, Hileman is placing the traditional role of women in western society on a pedestal for critique. These objects rest uneasily in the institutional gallery, as many women do in the traditional female role.
Using the unique indexical properties of the casting process, Hileman is able to evoke a domestic space within the gallery, and open it up for conversation. Home & Hearth asks the viewer to also take a critical look at their domestic spaces, the objects that inhabit them, and the roles implied by them.
Home & Hearth is in a private collection.