Dream Home, curated by Ricky Subritzky, reconfigured the Strangely Familiar installation for exhibition at G Fine Art, Washington D.C., from June 24 to August 5, 2006.
As well as Fiona MacDonald’s work from the Strangely Familiar exhibition, Dream Home included a new work in its domestic installation, Liberty, which featured an illustration of America’s last Liberty Tree on US dollar bills (Liberty Trees were used as rallying points throughout the American colonies by revolutionaries). Further inspired by protest and contemporary grassroots manifestations in US currency defacement, each of Liberty’s dollars was stamped with the last Liberty Tree, so as to be identifiable when the work gets spent back into circulation.
Dream Home shifted Strangely Familiar’s earlier domestic musings to correlations between possessions and dispossessions. Taking place at the same time as a major exhibition of art by Aboriginal women in Washington, it included Twilight by Susan Norrie, a video of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy that protests about Aboriginal land rights and sovereignty on the front lawn of Australia’s first Parliament House.
For more information, download Subritzky’s Exhibition Notes.
