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This 'passive-aggressive art gallery' is the perfect petty roommate prank

Move over, Duchamp.

Chloe Bryan

on March 18, 2017

Twitter learned a valuable lesson this week: passive-aggressively pranking your messy roommate can double as fine art.

To be fair, not all messy roommates are created equal. There's the saucepan-in-sink roommate, for example, who likes to fill dirty pots with water and "let them soak" for weeks. There's the couch roommate, who stores at least a quarter of their belongings on the sofa for reasons you'll never understand.

And then there's the cutlery caper, who doesn't not do the dishes, per se, but has a nasty habit of leaving single pieces of unwashed cutlery around. A peanut butter knife, a sour cream spoon—nothing big, but annoying nonetheless.

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For comedian Justin Cousson, who appears to live with a cutlery caper (albeit one with a few other vices), this was the perfect fodder for a "passive-aggressive art gallery."

Here are a few of the finest pieces. We're particularly drawn to "Cheese Knife," which seems to have cheese stuck to its handle for some reason.

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Critics seem to be pleased. "The curation is stunning," wrote one fellow tweeter. "So elegant and simple, yet innovative, truly a breath of fresh air."