This project takes Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen as its point of departure, arguing that gendered oppression is not directed solely at women but is sustained through the regulation and exclusion of certain bodies and behaviours. The kitchen functions not only as a site of women’s oppression, but also as a mechanism that stabilises patriarchal norms by defining who may enter, act competently, and belong. The work introduces an excluded body whose hesitant, unskilled gestures reveal how proficiency is socially produced rather than natural. This logic extends to other feminised forms of labour, where exclusion continues to reproduce gendered hierarchies.