
Lakeside
- Publisher
- Gnomic Book
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-1-7338877-8-6
- Specifications
- Hardcover
148 + 16 pages, 70 colour plates
First edition
Third monograph after You Are Masters Of The Fish And Birds And All The Animals and The Reflection In The Pool
Work variously collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Vogue Italia Collection, Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma and Tate Britain
Shane Rocheleau's most ambitious monograph, Lakeside tackles the historical contradictions of white supremacy as they are manifested in present-day suburban Virginia. 'Lakeside, Virginia is a psychic landscape, a representation of countless spaces initially built to feign the American Exceptionalism writ to redact America's contentious reality,' Rocheleau says. 'Lakeside is also a place with eleven thousand people doing the best they can—ugly and beautiful things alike—while drowning in the reality that dreaming gets far less than its promise.' The book draws together Rocheleau's earlier inquiries into white American masculinity (You Are Masters of the Fish and Birds and All the Animals) and homelessness in the United States (The Reflection in the Pool) into a single, fuller-volume examination of a particular American suburb and the systems that produced it. The work is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Vogue Italia Collection, Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma and Tate Britain.