Show Homes

The elaborate American model homes are meticulously arranged for prospective buyers, revealing shifting boundaries between private and public space in the US. The large homes, staged for sale, are emulating intimacy of a family home, yet any sense of intimacy is lost in an artificial display. It is a place to live, yet it is unlivable. It is a private home, yet it is a public display. Within the Display, Desire installation, the prints simultaneously function as images of display and display of images. Strange details of the American homes are exposed, through the language of cinema and mechanisms of projection. The projection of black and white transparencies onto semi-transparent Plexiglas screens suggest the plastic quality of the interiors, and within the overlapping projection spaces, the images transform, exploring possible representations of the photographic medium itself.