Mia Wilkinson - HOUSEKEEPING

HOUSEKEEPING
Mia Wilkinson, Curated by Menel Baran

An overfull sink, a half-set table, a bathtub brimming with bodies—what do these domestic scenes reveal about the invisible labour that holds a home together?

In HOUSEKEEPING, Mia Wilkinson transforms the home into a theatre of excess, where humour and pleasure exist alongside unease, and domestic rituals shift between care, performance and quiet rebellion. Presented at In Between Ibiza and curated by Menel Baran, the exhibition marks Wilkinson's first solo exhibition in Ibiza and the gallery's first guest-curated exhibition.

Working across painting and sculpture, Wilkinson draws upon the visual language of the home to challenge idealised notions of femininity, class and domestic order. Her richly layered interiors are populated by unruly figures, animals and objects that blur the boundaries between the familiar and the uncanny. Seductive surfaces, decorative patterns and theatrical colour draw the viewer in before revealing scenes that are at once comic, grotesque and psychologically charged. The works expose the contradictions placed upon women's bodies while refusing fixed roles of caregiver, hostess or muse.

Presented across In Between's split-level spaces, HOUSEKEEPING unfolds like moving through the rooms of an unfamiliar house. Kitchens overflow, tables buckle beneath impossible feasts, and moments of bathing become spaces of both rest and transformation. Rather than presenting the home as a place of certainty, Wilkinson reveals it as somewhere continually performed, disrupted and remade—a place where care, appetite, pleasure and resistance coexist.