Heidi Schlatter's freestanding photographic props are taken from a district in Panama City that was leveled by the US military during the invasion in 1989. These buildings are emptied of their history they are the ordinary faces of any number of housing units around the world, ambiguous icons to progress, like anti-ads for a not-so-bright future.

Schlatter's vinyl enlargements of snapshots of these low-rent interiors and exteriors reveal a layer of uneasiness. The ordinary is twisted; like cutaways from graphic film scenes they describe places upon which the eye does not usually linger for very long. Using a medium commonly used for advertising, these innocuous places are blown out of proportion and mounted as free-standing elements. They exist as a thin skin between private space and public space, using the photographic image to distort ones perception of the exhibition space itself.