Taryn Simon
dal 9/11/2012 al 23/2/2013
Segnalato da
9/11/2012
Taryn Simon
Corcoran Gallery Art, Washington
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII. This collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among order, chaos, genetics, and other components of fate.
Simon (b. 1975) produced A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII over a four-year period (2008–11), during which she traveled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. “In each of the 18 chapters,” the artist has explained, “you see the external forces of territory, governance, power, and religion, colliding with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance.”
She chose a wide variety of subjects, including feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein's son Uday, and the "living dead" in India. This collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among order, chaos, genetics, and other components of fate. In addition to the Corcoran, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters has traveled to Tate Modern, London; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Opening 10 november 2012
Corcoran Gallery Art
New York Avenue and 500 Washington
Admission free