An exhibition at a Hackney museum takes a peek inside the closely guarded space that is a teenager’s bedroom.
Curated by Carey Newson, a PhD student at Queen Mary University, the exhibition opened 4 October at the Geffrye Museum of the Home in Hoxton. In this exploration of the hidden meanings of modern teenage bedrooms across North and East London, Ms Newson hopes to look beyond teenagers’ classic “impulse towards black paint in a sort of Adrian Mole way,” using interviews, photographs, artefacts and an installation to explore these intensely personal spaces.
Ms Newson said: “Bedrooms are much more social spaces now, so that when you escape to your room, you’re actually escaping to talk to your friends.”
She explains that both the museum’s ongoing efforts and her exhibition attempts to “capture the present… [by] collecting images that show how we inhabit places now.”
“Teenage Bedrooms: Like a house inside of a house” runs until March 2017 at the Geffrye Museum of the Home. Admission is free.
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