Art has had a long time obsession with the creepy, cookie-cutter perfectionism of American suburbia, yet always with an absurdist twist. Edward and his scissor hands sculpted perfectly shaped love heart trees in Edward Scissorhands, while housewives in Stepford Wives were creepily computer programmed to perfection. All in all, the absurd is used by art as a satirical way to highlight the morbid issues at the heart of suburbian ‘normalcy’. Polish photographer and
Using creepy stock imagery of American suburbia to question the truth
By Lexi Manatakis (info@dazedgroup.com)
May 7, 2018 at 01:00AM
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