Dan Graham, Alteration to a Suburban House, 1978
Suburbia can only exist thanks to two factors : television and car. Television brings the city into the suburbia, and car brings the citizen from the suburbia to the city. In fact the main issue is exactly this relation and controversial dialogue between public and private sphere. In 1978 Dan Graham returned to the theme of sprawl with another publication entitled: Alteration to a Suburban Houses.
Here the artist presented the model of a single- family house, entirely vernacular in style with its simple two-pitched roof, substituting the façade with a transparent glass window and placing, parallel to the large glass front a mirrored wall on the inside of the house. In this way the interior of the house was made visible to the street, while the street itself was reflected in the mirrored wall within the house, thwarting the rigid separation between domestic and public space.
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