Now on view - Henrike Naumann: Re-Education __ The exhibition draws from Naumann's practice examining socio-political problems on the level of interior design and domestic space, exploring antagonistic political beliefs through the ambivalent aesthetics of personal taste. For her first exhibition in the United States, Naumann has developed a museum-scaled display of dozens of furnishings and domestic items staged in a critical parody of the dubious “horseshoe theory.” The “horseshoe theory” was developed in Germany in the 1930s and revived in the 1990s both to establish the parameters of the political center and to treat far left and far right extremisms as equivalent threats to its order – as if they were the two ends of a horseshoe bending away from the middle and out of control at the same rate. Naumann’s exhibition rejects such superficial and misleading categorizations of centers and extremes by conducting an idiosyncratic survey of rural sensibilities in American interior design, from faux-bois chairs to the farmhouse doors of the suburban cul-du-sac. __ Image:Henrike Naumann, 'Rustic Traditions', 2022, installation view, 'Henrike Naumann: Re-Education.' Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton