About

Unrequited Leisure is a curatorial project by Chalet Comellas and Clinton Sleeper.
From 2019 to 2024 we ran a gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, that focused on emerging and mid-career artists exploring screen-based approaches to critical and topical investigations. Exhibitions in the gallery were selected through a thematic frameworks.

Under the moniker AIR_(space) Projects we curated flags, and objects that could be exhibited as flags under the project title , from a pole in front of our gallery in front of the Packing Plant. This project lasted from April 3rd, 2021 to June 14, 2022 (Flag Day).

Throughout that time we also curated exhibitions and online and continue to focus our efforts on pop-up exhibitions in physical spaces and virtual projects online.

We identify the significance of plurality and diverse voices and since we started this project in 2019, more than ninety percent of the artists shown by Unrequited Leisure identify as those from historically underrepresented populations in contemporary art.

Visit + View

We were located at 507 Hagan Street Studio C,
The Packing Plant, Nashville, TN, 37203

The Packing Plant remains an important contributor to culture in Nashville, and we hope you will visit.

Reviews + Press

REVIEW: Needle in the hay at Unrequited Leisure
Ruckus Journal, Joe Nolan, 2023
Raheleh Filsoofi’s Sculpture and Video Installation Is a Meditative Mouthful
Nashville Scene, Joe Nolan, 2022
Video Work by Mary Addison Hackett Is a Deadpan Art Speak Goldmine
Nashville Scene, Laura Hutson Hunter, 2022
Best of Nashville, Writer’s Choice, Best Alternative Display: AIRspace at Unrequited Leisure
Nashville Scene, Joe Nolan, 2021
Best of Nashville, Writer’s Choice, Best Online Exhibition: Unrequited Leisure
Nashville Scene, Laura Hutson Hunter, October 12, 2020
What Good Are Galleries?
Nashville Scene, Laura Hutson Hunter, August 6, 2020
Outstanding Exhibition of Video Art Arrives Right on Time
Nashville Scene, Laura Hutson Hunter, May 14, 2020
ILSSA: Creative Practice Call and Response
Number: Inc., Patrick Vincent, September 2019
Five Art Exhibitions to See Right Now
The Tennessean Newspaper, Melinda Baker, August 2019
Alternative Gallery Spaces are Nashville’s Oldest New Trend
Nashville Scene, Joe Nolan, August, 2019