Cut for Comfort

Presentation

Interaction

Exibition

A Week-Long Exhibition for May Day

“Cut for Comfort” emerges as a critical curatorial initiative within contemporary art practice in Bangladesh, and marks KUN Creative Studio’s first collective exhibition. Bringing together artworks, presentations, and forms of interaction, the exhibition examines the often-overlooked relationship between labour, material, and everyday life. Against the backdrop of rapid technological advancement in the wood and craft industries, it draws attention to the persistent precarity of labour, particularly questions of safety, dignity, and recognition. The title itself holds a deliberate tension: “Cut” refers both to the transformation of material and to the physical risks borne by the worker, while “Comfort” evokes the ease and refinement ultimately experienced by the consumer. In this distance between production and consumption, the exhibition considers how labour becomes obscured within the finished commodity. Drawing on Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism and the ethics of care developed by thinkers such as Carol Gilligan and Joan Tronto, “Cut for Comfort” repositions labour not simply as an act of production, but as a human, embodied, and ethical practice of care—foregrounding the workers whose skill, vulnerability, and often-unseen labour make everyday comfort possible.