FAMILY SECRETS
an installation by Vitrine Feature Artist - Emily Rumney
30 january - 20 April 2009
In this work Emily Rumney explores the idea of the ‘wholesome’ façade within the formalised set up of the family portrait. The viewer becomes a voyeur into an intimate, interior space. Rumney depicts sweet little family interactions, which, on closer inspection becomes disconcertingly out of kilter. Stoic and constrained, the subjects are boxed in and rendered in delicate sepia-toned intaglio prints; all-the-while politely hinting at the unsettling idea of what goes on behind the scenes of these colonial family images. Long-held family secrets once thought to be buried or eventually given up are exposed.
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