Home interiors often allude to who inhabits them. Black home interiors include visual references as to the worldly understanding of its inhabitants. The walls are adorned with pictures and objects that seemingly constitute a black aesthetic and represent the materiality of black interiority. Focusing on Apt. 3104, an interior installation by Genevieve Gaignard, this presentation explores the installation’s formal properties and the discourse it creates about the complex functionality of space as it relates to identity. Drawing on kitsch, drag culture, and performance, Gaignard skillfully creates an “undeniably black” space that contests the boundaries of blackness. In addition to examining the formal qualities of the installation, this paper analyzes Gaignard’s installation as her conceptual interpretation of interior spaces as the physical manifestation of interiority.
