Memory Merchandise
14’ x 20’6” x 12’9”
Cast iron, paint, fabricated steel
2017
2017 Intern Artist
Artist Statement
The everyday experience in first world societies is filled with cliché sayings sayings about home. “Home” is a loaded word because beyond its primary function of shelter, the word elicits a sentimental response in all humans. However, the connection to the structure and geography is both physically and emotionally impermanent. The notion of the dream home is an illusion.
As represented in the three panels, this work is concerned with three types of home: formative, physical, and emotional. The Formative is biographical and represents an individual’s past. The Physical is a person’s current house. The Emotional is the place of elsewhere for which we all aspire but will never quite achieve.
A Strange Form of Home uses the billboard as a symbol of travel and transition. Line drawings of the homes in which the artist has lived overlap one another to fabricate the illusion of home.
Angela St. Vrain
Born: Louisville, KY, USA
Resides: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Education
BFA, University of Louisville, 2016