Opening: 19.03.2024
Exhibition: 20.03–08.09.2024
Place: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Montalegre, 5 – 08001 Barcelona, Spain
Weronika Gęsicka will present the works from her Traces (2017) series
Suburbia. Building the American Dream draws us into the imaginary of the idyllic family home and shows how this lifestyle has been sold and promoted by fiction and the entertainment industry. The exhibition goes back to the origins of residential neighbourhoods in the early nineteenth century, explains how they developed massively in the 1950s, and reviews the economic, political and social context of their relentless expansion across the United States.
With abundant historical material, period documentaries, photographs, paintings, films and series, novels and magazines, works of art and everyday objects, the exhibition places us in the mental paradise of the suburb and invites us to rethink the value of the city and public space today.
Artists: Jessica Chou, Margaret Crawford, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Doyle, Gerard Freixes, Rodrigo Fresán, Gabriele Galimberti, Ana Galvañ, Weronika Gęsicka, Benjamin Grant, Todd Hido, A.M. Homes, Joel Meyerowitz, Matthias Müller, Blanca Munt, Alberto Ortega, Bill Owens, Sheila Pree Bright, León Siminiani, Amy Stein, Greg Stimac, Angela Strassheim, Deborah Stratman, Ed & Deanna Templeton, Kate Wagner and Christopher Willan
Advisor: Francesc Muñoz
Curator: Philipp Engel
Source: CCCB