Hello fellow artists, we are Debora and Christy, two independent curators based in New York City. We are pleased to announce an open call for submissions to our upcoming one-day exhibition “Have a Good One!”, hosted in a local deli shop and planned for mid-February. We welcome contemporary artists to submit works aligned with the theme.
“Have a Good One!” examines the challenges of daily life in New York City—and other hyper-urbanized cities worldwide—by transforming the grocery store into a space of exploration and insight.
Through subtle artistic interventions camouflaged within a bodega, the exhibition reflects the normalization of inflated prices and highlights the absurdities of economic inequality embedded in our everyday lives. The bodega, a mundane yet essential space, becomes a microcosm of contemporary capitalism’s surreal contradictions:abundance on display, yet out of reach for many.
We invite artists to respond to these tensions by creating works that challenge visitors’ perceptions of products, occupying the liminal space between purchasable goods and works of art. Through their unique perspectives and mediums, artists are encouraged to expose the absurdity of the “gentrification” of even the most mundane objects, reframing them to question their value, significance, and role in consumer culture. Engaging with the delicate balance between survival and excess, the works will adapt to the grocery store’s context, provoking questions about the disparities and contradictions of modern everyday life.
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Please, send your artwork proposal and description to the email “haveagoodone220@gmail.com”. Thank you.
