Domestic Dialogues: The Art of Living in Detroit

Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26, 2025

Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008, Paris

Whatupdoe. Welcome. Come in.

You’ve arrived at the front door of a Detroit home — not just any home, but one where art doesn’t hang quietly in the background. Here, it speaks, challenges, comforts, and connects. You’re invited to step inside, wander through the rooms, and experience how contemporary Detroit art and design come alive in the everyday.

Domestic Dialogues: The Art of Living in Detroit transforms the gallery into a living space — a domestic setting imagined through the eyes of a Detroit-based collector whose home serves as a personal museum, a salon, and a site of constant dialogue with the city’s creative community. Featuring works by Detroit artists across disciplines, it reflects an imagined collector’s relationship with the community, embodying Detroit’s legacy of craftsmanship, reinvention, and soulful expression.

This is a home filled with stories. From paintings and sculptures to handcrafted furniture, ceramics, textiles, and design objects, each piece has been made by a contemporary Detroit artist or designer — and chosen with care. The works don’t just sit on display; they inhabit the space. They are lived with as an intimate part of everyday life.

Detroit has always been a city of making, of grit and grace, resourcefulness and reinvention. The artists represented here reflect the city’s distinctive rhythm and its deep well of innovation. The collector, too, is part of this story: someone who supports not just the work, but the people behind it, building a home that reflects Detroit’s complex, beautiful, creative spirit.

Make yourself comfortable. Look closely. Linger. Imagine yourself in Detroit.

Welcome to the house art built.

Artists

Peter Bernal
Akea Brionne
Allana Clarke
Maya Davis
James Benjamin Franklin
Na Forest Lim
Kylie Lockwood
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Tylonn J. Sawyer
Bakpak Durden
Conrad Egyir
Carole Harris
Scott Hocking
Hubert Massey
Katie Mongoven
Keisha Miller
Senghor Reid
Rashaun Rucker
Shirley Woodson

Artists featured in Domestic Dialogues were selected through a nomination-based process led by more than 50 community-based organizations and individuals, reflecting DETROIT SALON’s commitment to access and inclusion. Final selections were made by an independent jury of nationally and internationally recognized curators and arts professionals from institutions across Michigan and beyond.

The full list of jurors include: Allison Glenn, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Craig Hadley, Katie Grace McGowan, Maya Stovall, Michael Stone-Richards, Muhannad Shono, Taylor Renee Aldridge and Srimoyee Mitra.