"Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday"

In Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday, artist Ioana Aron (b. 1994, Romania) renders the intimate architecture of modern relationships and their nuances through a towering sculptural installation—a chaotic mountain of plates, pots, and utensils embodying accumulated emotional residue. Centered around a kitchen sink, the installation spills upward and outward—layered, precarious, and quietly overwhelming.

Commissioned by Paired, the world’s leading couples and relationship care app, this exhibition transforms the overlooked landscape of domestic routine into a poetic and pointed meditation on care, communication, and the emotional weight of the everyday. It asks us to consider not only what is built in shared space, but what remains unspoken within it. “The push and pull of two worlds merging into one is often most noticeable through the mundane—dirty dishes left a bit too long, laundry left unfolded. When these moments of friction are left to sit without resolution, partnership suddenly feels…