Thresholds: Reimagining Domesticity, Labor, and Identity
On view: September 6 – 28, 2025
Opening Reception & Performance: September 6, 6–8 PM
Artist Talks: September 20, 4–6 PM
Closing Reception: September 28, 3–6 PM
Location: PS122 Gallery, 150 1st Avenue, New York, NY
PS122 Gallery is pleased to announce “Thresholds: Reimagining Domesticity, Labor, and Identity,” a group exhibition featuring multidisciplinary work by Santina Amato, Katya Grokhovsky, Woomin Kim, and Barbara Weissberger. This timely exhibition explores the intersections of domestic labor, material culture, gender, and personal identity through a rich array of sculpture, textile, photography, video, and performance.
In an era defined by economic instability, rising loneliness, and domestic precarity, “Thresholds” brings together four artists whose practices draw from the material and psychological realities of the domestic realm. Whether responding to family structures, labor,
housing, or solitude, each artist uses their home as a site of inquiry, mining its messes, rituals, rhythms, and silences.
“Thresholds” invites viewers to consider the home not merely as a private refuge but as a charged site of negotiation, a threshold between visibility and invisibility, care and confinement, tradition and transformation. The artists draw on personal and cultural narratives to subvert the meanings of everyday domestic objects such as bread dough, discarded fabrics, furniture, and household remnants, infusing them with complex emotional and historical weight.
The exhibition opens with a durational performance by Santina Amato on September 6 from 6–8 PM, where the body becomes a tool of labor and reflection. Audiences are also invited to a public Artist Talk on September 20 (4–6 PM), where all four artists will discuss their processes, inspirations, and the political undercurrents of their practices. A Closing Reception on September 28 (3–6 PM) will mark the final opportunity to engage with the work and its themes in person.
Curated with a sensitivity to materiality and the symbolic resonance of domestic labor, “Thresholds” positions the home as a site of both containment and agency. The exhibition amplifies the voices of women artists who confront and reimagine the spaces and materials that shape everyday life. Through meticulous making, embodied action, and radical recontextualization, their works challenge viewers to see the domestic space as a site of confrontation and creation, far from a place of escapism or retreat.
About The Artists:
Santina Amato
Santina Amato is a visual artist whose work explores the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of the female body through photography, sculpture, video, performance, and installation. Born in Australia to Italian immigrants and based in New York, her interdisciplinary practice investigates domestic materials and the tension between intimacy and estrangement. Amato holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received support for her work from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Australia Council among others. In 2025, she participated in AIR Gallery’s 16th Biennale, I Woke Up Dreaming, and in 2024, she exhibited and performed at the Sixth AIM Biennale at the Bronx Museum. Her recent work explores themes of aloneness, aging, and the domestic as a site of
both vulnerability and transformation.
Katya Grokhovsky
Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian-born, New York–based interdisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, performance, video, and painting. Her work interrogates issues of gender, labor, identity, and the immigrant experience through the lens of personal and cultural history. Grokhovsky is the founder of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. She holds an MFA from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. Katya has participated in residencies at The California Studio Manetti Shrem Residency at UC Davis, Ekard Residency at Bucknell University, Museum of Arts and Design, Sculpture Space, Wassaic Project and more. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has received support from major institutions including the Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, Smack Mellon and the Brooklyn Museum.
Woomin Kim
Woomin Kim is a Korean artist currently based in Queens, NY. In her textile works, Kim describes sceneries and memories of everyday life and urban landscapes that feel personal and precious to herself. Kim’s work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum, Bronx Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum and the Moody Center for the Arts. Kim has participated in residencies at the Queens Museum, Smack Mellon and Art Omi. Kim collaborated with the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Noguchi Museum and American Folk Art Museum for various workshops and programing. Her works have been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic and BOMB Magazine. Kim received a B.F.A. from Seoul National University and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Barbara Weissberger
Barbara Weissberger’s photographic quilts sit somewhere in a three-way intersection between sculpture, collage, and photography. Her staged photographs place everyday things from home and from the studio in absurd arrangements. In the quilts the photograph, as dye sublimation print on fabric, becomes material. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her
work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell, Yaddo, Camargo and the Bogliasco Foundation, and is exhibited widely.