‘Welcome to the Dreamhouse’ examines the American neoliberal dream’s influence on Australia and our increasing aspiration for homeownership and the commodified good life. The work employs the suburban gothic to interrogate the dream’s decaying and anachronistic facade as conveyed through the suburban fantasy. The suburbs are scrutinised by exploiting nostalgic commodified icons and intervening with their kitsch veneer. ‘Welcome to the Dreamhouse’seeks to disclose the hollow embellishments of the commodity object’s surface, its construction of sentimentalised childhood narratives, and our collective denial for the dream’s illusory exterior.
Opening Event: Friday 2 July 6-8pm
Amy Carkeek is represented through M.Contemporary, Sydney.
Image: Untitled #2, 2012, Archival inkjet print, 60 x 86.5cm
