Janaye Brown

In the Kitchen (2017) 

HD Video, Color, Sound, TRT: 31:03 (in eight parts)

In the Kitchen presents eight vignettes that take place in kitchens around New York City. The compactness of city dwellings means that rooms are often used for more than their designated functions; as the utilitarian hub of domestic spaces, the kitchen is especially lived in. I’m interested in capturing both the purely functional and the idiosyncratic rituals people perform in this familiar space.

Selected works from the series can be viewed here.