{"id":43333,"date":"2017-02-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/house-of-horrors-the-shows-putting-a-macabre-twist-on-domestic-bliss\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:15:04","slug":"house-of-horrors-the-shows-putting-a-macabre-twist-on-domestic-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/house-of-horrors-the-shows-putting-a-macabre-twist-on-domestic-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"House of horrors: the shows putting a macabre twist on domestic bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe booby-trapped bedroom, the mysterious mincing machine, the body under the patio \u2026 why the sudden spate of shows taking a creepy view of home life?Domestic life as a subject for art suggests a smug casserole of Cath Kidston prints and sentimentality: hints of amateurism, family portraits, tasteful still-life paintings. But a number of current exhibitions offer a more oppressive \u2013 even macabre \u2013 vision of domesticity, in which the home appears as a site of burden and confinement. That these sinister depictions of family space arise in exhibitions featuring a large number of female artists is by no means coincidental, but the experiences they draw on are as varied as the works themselves. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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