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Kevin McCoy on Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror - Architecture of Fear | Z33

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Uploaded by on Oct 1, 2011

interview with artist Keving McCoy about the works Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror in the exhibition Architecture of Fear (02.10 - 31.12.2011) at Z33.

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (2004)

other works of Jennifer & Kevin McCoy in Architecture of Fear:
Big Box 2 (2008)
Big Box 3 (2009)

Suburban Horror maakt deel uit van de serie Soft Rains, waarin Jennifer en Kevin McCoy bekende cult- en genrefilms als vertrekpunt nemen. Boven deze miniatuur diorama's torenen kleine camera's uit die live filmbeelden projecteren in een oneindige lus. Voor dit werk lieten de kunstenaars zich inspireren door Blue Velvet van David Lynch. Daarin worden de idyllische suburbs met hun groene tuintjes en witte hekken de setting voor een verhaal over de meest obsessieve en duistere uitspattingen van de mens. Net als in de film groeit er een ongemakkelijke spanning, het vertrouwde krijgt een dreigende ondertoon. Zelfs binnen die geïdealiseerde wereld is het unheimliche, de angst voor het vreemde, sluimerend en dreigend aanwezig.

http://www.z33.be/projecten/architecture-fear

Suburban Horror is part of the Soft Rains series, in which Jennifer and Kevin McCoy use famous cult and genre movies as a starting point. Small cameras tower above miniature dioramas showing live footage projected in an endless loop. The artists' inspiration for this work was the film Blue Velvet by David Lynch, which uses an idyllic suburban village with its green gardens and white picket fences as a setting for a story about man's most obsessive and dark excesses. Like in the film, the uneasy tension grows; the familiar acquires a threatening undertone. Even within this idealized world, the uncanny, the fear of the unknown, is secretly and threateningly present.

http://www.z33.be/en/projects/architecture-fear

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