Foxcroft with Malic Amalya

“Foxcroft is a video installation consisting of five vintage dollhouses displayed on a platform covered with live sod. In the style of Cinema Verite, the Foxcroft collaborative recorded themselves, their homes, their families, and the Dayton region with minimal directorial intrusion. This footage is projected into each house and viewers are required to peer in through the windows to witness the lives unfolding within. A single soundscape connects the entire neighborhood.

Dollhouses are sites of play, and places to envision and enact the domestic sphere and future possibilities. In Foxcroft, 1950’s tin litho dollhouses become viewing apparatuses to the lives of seven Ohio youth. Tensions between reality and fantasy, the teenagers’ aspirations and cultural expectations, and self-identity and perceptions by others are amplified but ultimately inseparable.”

Student Artist:
Matt Clark, Columbus College of Art and Design

Youth Participants:
Nikki Crowell, Trotwood
Kier Dorman, Dayton
Samantha Enright, Dayton
Ben Hoogsteden, Dayton
Marissa Williams, Dayton
Jeremy Young, Centerville