material culture! what can we learn about the stuff people have/love/hate?

jon wagner, “seeing things”

here are some of the art projects that explore material culture/stuff, which you can explore if you so desire….

  1. rania matar, a girl and her room
  2. lauren greenfield, generation wealth (good bibliography at the bottom! — she also has other interesting projects, like girl culture and kids + money)
  3. adrienne salinger, teenager (no direct link, but easy enough to find. as a collector of teeth and tooth accessories, i also recommend the “tooth” series…)
  4. peter manzel, “material world: a global family portrait” (there’s a lot here, but the most famous of his work is where he has families take all their possessions out of their home and pose with them outside of it: here’s the US example, and here’s the south africa example.

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