The delightful exhibition currently on view at Williamsburg's Pierogi gallery (177 North 9th Street, between Bedford and Driggs Avenues) takes a parodic look at a very specific genre of building: the retirement home. Dewan has not only built a model showroom for his ficitonal assisted living facility Williams Meadow, but has constructed an entire narrative around its founder and a truly ridiculous social experiment conducted through the facility's incredibly hierarchical and absurd operations. The slideshow presentation that runs on a loop in the gallery is hilarious, and turns a critical eye on an architectural institution that is rarely investigated yet completely central to our socio-cultural values and norms. Brian Dewan's Housed is on display until March 8.
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