Girls at The End of The World, Installation, Elijah Wheat Showroom
Bad-feminist apocalypse meets domestic installation art in “Girls at the End of the World,” Jessica Hargreaves’s solo show at Elijah Wheat. The exhibition—a sumptuous, end-times boudoir bristling with primal energy and painterly precision—features oil and acrylic reliefs alongside artist-designed household objects: the final decor of a doomed patriarchy. Drawing on her background in fashion and textile design, Hargreaves reimagines feminine archetypes in collapse and bloom, embedding them in soft surfaces and sharp critiques. Known for curatorial projects like 49.5 and her Germantown project space Mother-in-Law’s, Hargreaves brings her overtly political sensibility to bear on themes of power, identity, and aesthetic rupture. The results are feral, funny, and beautifully unsettling—just like the future. —Brian K Mahoney, Chronogram Magazine