Artworks

Rosé Room

The Rosé Room is a 2018 installation realized in conjunction with the artist's solo exhibition series Part II of The Women's Trilogy Project: Happy Hour. The Rosé Room is a multimedia exhibition that explores domestic culture and gender roles in relationship to alcoholism through a series of works on paper that uses iconography borrowed from Girl Scout and debutante traditions. Happy Hour is a deep reflection of her childhood growing up in the American South, which challenges the restrictions of her upbringing. Hovnanian uses her works in this series to show the conflicted complicit relationship between alcoholism and the domestic order, and pulls back the curtain on the numbness and silence in service of the status quo.

Rosé Room, 2018