Alex Prager Silver Lake Drive
‘Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive’ runs until 14 October 2018 at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. Admission is free before 12pm every day. Day passes cost £4 and advanced online booking is priced at £2.50.
What is it about the suburban aesthetics of 1950s and 1960s Americana that fascinates artists so much? This period of American history seems to occupy an almost folkloric territory. We can see it in the projects of David Lynch ( and in particular) . It crops up time after time in our retro-obsessed age and keeps us fascinated by the stories of Raymond Carver, Richard Yates and John Cheever. The thing that perhaps all these have in common is that in the homes that sit beyond those picket-fence borders something has gone wrong. Beneath the surface, there lies an insidious darkness of alcoholism, infidelity and secrets.
