Tracey Snelling began as a photographic artist and expanded her work with collages and assemblages. From 1998, she created her first house sculptures, miniature buildings that are transformed into scenes of mysterious dramas with collaged photos, videos and light effects.
Snelling's work reflects the hidden and repressed in our society. It is about living together and the stories of people in urban, often precarious housing situations. Tracey Snelling's house sculptures are based on existing buildings around the world: in Shanghai, Berlin, Naples or her home town of Oakland in California. The atmospheric features, the realistic details, the minimal alienations open up space for an examination of the question: How do we want to live?
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