Here, Somewhere | Queering Dorich House
Role: Curator, Artist
Showing: ‘Double Bed’ (2024), Kiss Me In The Straight
Club On Curtains (2024), Selected Archival Materials.
Location: Dorich House Museum, UK
Date: 01/11/24 to 01/03/25
Graphic Design: Nikhil Mirpuri
Research support: Fiona Fisher, Annaleena Piel Linnå, Brenda Martin
An exhibition of selected archival materials, and two installations of domestic objects at Dorich House Museum pointing to the supposed lavender marriage of Dora Gordine and Richard Hare – hinted at by former friends and acquaintances of the couple (albeit unwilling to go on the record). The project re-imagined the space as a queer home, questioning its history and imagining a simultaneous queer future. A lavender marriage is a straight presenting union of one or two members of the LGBTQ+ community, offering an alternative form of companionship and often formed to protect those within it.
Funded by Arts Council England through Museum Development London’s Diversity Matters programme and Kingston University.
More from Here, Somewhere
Here, Somewhere | Queering Dorich House
‘Double Bed’ (2024)
Kiss Me In The Straight Club On Curtains (2024)
Queer Objects Of The Home (2024)
Double Bed Durational Performance (2025)