TARGET, 2015 – 17

TARGET comprises a series of site-based house intervention works, documented in photography, alongside a collection of marked historical photographs, studio-based artefacts, sketches, and drawings created in Australia, the United States, and Norway between 2015 and 2017.

TARGET began as a studio-based work in 2015. Here, Strange created sketches and experiments based on found photographs of American homes, primarily in the Rust Belt of Ohio, often taken by real estate agents between the 1930s and 1960s to sell and document suburban properties. The site intervention and photographic works were created in Perth, Western Australia, and Richmond, Victoria, between 2015 and 2017. At the time of documentation, both sites faced imminent demolition, situated within previously affordable suburban areas experiencing rapid development, housing instability, and unaffordability. Paired with the intervention photographs, the real-estate images carry red-ink markings that reference the motif of the target as well as the 'X' used to indicate the threat of removal—whether on exposures in a contact sheet or signaling the uncertain futures of these sites.

In 2017, TARGET was first exhibited at NuArt Festival in Stavanger, Norway, as a citywide billboard exhibition and as a publication of the same name.