There’s a prefab housing development just outside the gates of Vienna called the Blue Lagoon—an idyll of single-family homes erected between a shopping mall and the Autobahn. “Experience your dream life,” promises the brochure. This artificial suburbia is the background for Muntean/Rosenblum’s parable of lost identities, “Lost in the Savage Wilderness of Civil Life.” It’s an apt title for this exhibition, in which these ethnographers of youth culture have turned their thematic home base into a nearly universal category.

Behind the gallery doors was the facade of what looked like a house from