PHOTOGRAPHS

Through a confluence of image appropriation, language and monumental scale, S.A. Bachman’s photographs interrogate the correspondence between fact and fiction and the deceptive parameters of public and private. By deftly manipulating popular media representations of suburban malaise and out-of-context advertisements, Bachman turns the seemingly innocent, but obviously offending, image against itself. Bachman’s texts juxtapose an anonymous voice of authority with conversational artifacts to reveal the complex ways ideological messages intersect with our desires and ambivalences, while reinscribing sexism, white privilege and conformity.