Helen's Home (2023)
64' (Formerly Caryatid Encounters (2021), 47')

A dark satire on the cliches of women’s desire, [Helen’s Home], combines a sprinkle of Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives (1972) with a dash of Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)... Helen is a woman whose whole life revolves around her kitchen, and her will to please. In a series of ‘vanilla nightmares’, Helen experiences awkward encounters with prospective house-renters as she tries, and fails, to sell her highly domestic lifestyle. She realizes that, for a generation of young professionals on the move, cookies fresh out of the oven are no longer the answer to modern living.

Róisín Tapponi, “A Domestic Odyssey: How Artists are using Video to Explore the Changing Faces of 'Home'", Frieze Magazine, Online, 23 Jul 2021

ChrisFite-Wassilak, “Freelancer’s Delight: Rosa Aiello’s ‘Caryatid Encounters’”, ArtReview, 25 Jan 2022

  • Solo screening, “Screening with Rosa Aiello,” 14 May 2022, Two Queens, Leicester
  • Solo exhibition, ‘Alles Gute Für Den Gast,’ 18 June 18 - 31 July 2021, Drei, Cologne
  • Solo exhibition, ‘Caryatid Encounters,’ 4 June - 10 July 2021, Arcadia Missa, London