Heidi Hesse

SUBURBIA 001-004

Suburbia: Nothing Happens. A house-lined, desolate street. Across the street from our point of view, a red house with white trim. The garage door opens, a woman exits and empties her trash. The garage door shuts. Nothing. A leaf skips in the street. Nothing. A UPS van barrels past the houses with their green lawn in front, between, in back. Nothing.

The setting: Skylab gallery; the building entrance at street level shared with a barbershop; on the fifth floor, the gallery. A series of four flip books made from video clips are hanging into the center of the elevator. The content: the scenes above. Fake grass on the walls, birdsong can be heard. The intent: A comment on social interaction in suburbia, the elevator, the gallery. An invitation to take an alternate route, to look, not stare, to touch, to circulate, to huddle. The result: a crowded elevator, visitors take multiple rides without exiting, the books are passed from one to another visitor, rumors start in the gallery about activities behind the curtains of the little red house. The space between: activated.

Heidi Hesse

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