Opening on Friday 9th August 6pm – 9pm at La Roche House (5a Windsor Avenue North, Belfast BT9 6EL). No booking necessary.

The exhibition is free and open to the public on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th August between 11am – 4pm by appointment only. Please let us them know you are coming by sending your name to [email protected]

Form Follows Function explores the domestic as an anticipatory, affective space. The exhibition title is derived from the core principle of modernist design; that the shape of a building or object should primarily relate to its intended function or purpose. The exhibition extends and reclaims this definition by proposing that the home’s purpose is not just to organise the everyday functional practicalities of living but also to provide a speculative place that can house the possibilities of dreaming and imagining new, ‘softer’ futures.

Form Follows Function is held in La Roche House, a 1960s building off the Malone Road in south Belfast, where the works will be installed amongst the furniture of the building’s owners. Works in the exhibition explores interior spaces of play, creativity, invention and dreaming, and the domestic as a site of labour and action, and are all part of UPHOLD, Household’s not for profit platform for promoting and selling the work of Northern Ireland based artists.

Form Follows Function is part of The Living House, Household’s new programme of activities that explores the domestic as a radical site of production and imagining. The artworks have all been commissioned through our UPHOLD programme and are available to buy.

This project was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business. Special thanks to La Roche House.