Maintenance Work: Practices of Care, an exhibition opening at The Good Rice Gallery, brings together artists working across installation, performance, video, and sculpture. Curated by Berenice Berlan and Sowon Kim, the show features works from 18 artists including Abeer Al-Tamimi, Flavia Carolina D’Alessandro, and Jieyi Chen, exploring maintenance not as a finished act but as an ongoing process shaped by care, repetition, and attention. The exhibition runs from 21st to 24th May 2026, with a private view on 21st May.
The exhibition matters because it reframes maintenance as a creative and relational practice, challenging conventional notions of completion and fixed meaning in art. By emphasizing process over product, it invites viewers to engage with art as a field of relations where meaning emerges through proximity, duration, and shared presence. This curatorial approach reflects broader contemporary conversations about labor, sustainability, and the invisible work that sustains artistic and social systems.