In Ilana Harris-Babou's sculptures and videos, home improvement shows and self care regimens become vehicles for critiquing inequities and arguing for reparations.
Ilana Harris-Babou's videos typically lampoon aspirational lifestyle trends associated with privileged consumer demographics that betray histories of racial oppression. For "Decision Fatigue," her…
Artists included in major biennial exhibitions, like the ones opening in Venice and at the Whitney Museum in New York this month, can find themselves subject to countervailing expectations. These…
Ilana Harris-Babou says that her mother is among the worst cooks she knows, which might come as a surprise, since the artist creates videos and ceramics that spoof cooking shows.