Coquitlam: Installation artists take aim at suburbia
Installation artists Kathy Tycholis and Carie Helm explore suburbia in their first joint exhibit, Subtopia, on display at the Evergreen Cultural Centre until July 3.
The name of the exhibit is a combination of the suburb, “a monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings,” and utopia, the idyllic fairy tale for which suburbs are often mistaken.
It’s a sparse exhibit, but one that sparks the viewer’s imagination — and horror — on a variety of levels. Beginning at the gallery entrance viewers are greeted with a screen flicking through images of suburbia around the world.
The images and photographs, captured by the Vancouver-based artists and culled from other sources, are a study in symmetry and sameness. Whether depicting a streetscape of cookie-cutter stucco houses, an aerial view of suburbia’s planned streets and neighbourhoods or recognizable images of our own Lower Mainland suburbia, the images offer an intriguing introduction to Subtopia.
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