Part collection, part curation, part critique; The Echo You Can See confronts the mythic thrall of the image of family in Western culture. Representations of family pilfered from their original contexts are systematically reframed, untangling the mass of connotations which work to naturalise the family-heterosexual married couple with their dependent children-as a normative ideal. Although this form fails to represent diverse realities, it remains inescapable… privileging "the right kind of family' by virtue of visibility. Poking satirically at this polished homogeneity of the family, The Echo You Can See deflates the fantasy by exhibiting its constructions and performances en masse.
Bringing together hoarded language from scholarship, pop culture, news media, advertising, and politics this exhibition shares a novel and overtly bias archive which highlights the tropes of family which obscure the complex, nuanced and subjective experiences we are familiar with.