Collaboration is central. Friends, at its simplest, refers to those committed to artistic freedom in all its forms. House of Friends is as much space for exploration as it is a collaboration, its modus operandi ensuring open dialogues, open works, and open experiences. Yes, House of Friends is a site for creative exchange. And yet, it is so much more.

A gallery with no physical space. A location without a site. A repository without an archive. House of Friends emphasizes connection, encourages collaboration, ensures interconnected contemporary conversations as if in a viewing room at a global scale.

And yet, House of Friends is also intimate, indeterminate, interstitial, its exhibitions and events materializing in random spaces for indeterminate times. Against today’s commercial compulsion for month-long vacations in the creative sphere, House of Friends is a flash, an immediacy, a jolt to the psyche, and fleeting, ephemeral, unexpected blast of deep insight, passionate creation, and unfettered expression.

House of Friends’ curated exhibition schedule will blend the timeline of an art- fair with the exclusivity of a gallery dinner. Cacophonous yet quiet, present yet private. House of Friends reimagines distance into audience-focused disinterestedness. This isn’t about everyone. It’s about friends.

But friends who care. Care about constituencies; care about creativity; care about creating dialogues and opportunities that are within and yet on the periphery of today’s creative centres.

There, at the intersections of contemporary design, craft, fine art, performance and cutting- edge technological research, House of Friends promotes the synthesis of leading creative thinkers and creators and offers new and unique opportunities to advance new connections within the and across global art and design community. Critical and historical, House of Friends will expand dialogues and explore perspectives that were previously marginalized. Against the persistence of racism, sexual bias, closedmindedness, repression, isolationism, fear, and despair, House of Friends is a site for revitalization and reimagination. The perspective? Familiar? The perspective. Free. The potential. Fathomless.

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Photography: Robert Cooper

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