Lucy Sparrow: The Beginning of Convenience
At the Momentary, Lucy Sparrow turns the supermarket into a full-scale felt archive of late twentieth-century convenience culture. The Beginning of Convenience recreates a 1980s and 1990s Walmart-inspired grocery store through more than 20,000 hand-sewn replicas, from frozen dinners to beauty products.
Sparrow uses softness and humor to look at how domestic routines, consumer habits, and ideas of efficiency were packaged for everyday life. The exhibition also brings viewers into Sparrow’s working process through a replica of her Felt Cave studio and a documentary following the making of the show.
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