ABCedaire I | Page 4

I International exhibition of modern art, Brooklyn Museum, 1926: Under the Société Anonyme’s patronage Katherine Dreier organized a modern art exhibition which puts model rooms at his epicenter. Combining modern interior design with the latest development of the artistic avant-garde, this section was mounted in order to convince the public that modern art was not restricted to the institutional sphere but could easily enhance a domestic interior. I If You Lived Here…: This three parts exhibition curated by Martha Rosler held at the Dia Art Foundation in 1989 was stressing the impact of SoHo’s gentrification. Between the research project and the group show, this exhibition encapsulated workshop, public meeting, art and non-art materials but also a shelter for homeless people. As Elena Filipovic puts it: the show was “delivering an implicit critique of the host institution located in the then-flourishing art market district of SoHo and it connected its immediate exhibition surrounding with a broader systems that made homelessness and human precarity thrive.