GALLERIES: New Domesticity - Opens

In New Domesticity, Bielefeld digs into how home and our roles within them are culturally constructed. Mainstream advertising, television, and movies contribute to the creation of heteronormative ideas about home that Bielefeld actively seeks to disrupt. Bielefeld photographs people from a wide range of identities, while making a point of queering the photographic canon. She spotlights the intentional and deliberate choice of domestic roles within the queer home, and thus draws an explicit contrast to traditional gender-identity formation that is often assumed unthinkingly. She depicts individuals and families, including her own queer family, as they relate to home and domesticity. In so doing, Bielefeld expands on the long history of the private space of the home providing both refuge and safety to people, but especially within queer communities.