On one level the exhibition A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, by Taryn Simon (1975, N.Y.), showing at Tate Modern (London), let us perceive, in one hand, the heterogeneous bloodiness and related stories of eighteen distinctive archetypical ‘chapters’ from Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Philippines, and many other countries from different continents; on the other hand, those portraits make an homogenous world network of external forces of territories, power and circumstances. The subject documented is presented by means of clean and classical portraits arranged in a linear form. Next to it, a central panel constructs narratives and contextualizes details – names, places, date and professions. On the right, are Simon’s visual booknotes – a mosaïque of photograph of VHS tapes, ID cards, graphic novels, medals, land ownership certificates, letters, etc. making evidence. While, on another level, this work territorializes the space existing between text and image, order and disorder. This world research and recording is a strategy for the production of knowledge. In where art is interrogating the social and cultural ideas of its time. Although with globalisation increasingly more people get to the same message, on a local level, what they do with it, is completely different.
Thursday 21 July 2011
«No. 341, 26 Apr. 2009. Inglewood, Queensland, Australia» (24 European Rabbits)
On one level the exhibition A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, by Taryn Simon (1975, N.Y.), showing at Tate Modern (London), let us perceive, in one hand, the heterogeneous bloodiness and related stories of eighteen distinctive archetypical ‘chapters’ from Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Philippines, and many other countries from different continents; on the other hand, those portraits make an homogenous world network of external forces of territories, power and circumstances. The subject documented is presented by means of clean and classical portraits arranged in a linear form. Next to it, a central panel constructs narratives and contextualizes details – names, places, date and professions. On the right, are Simon’s visual booknotes – a mosaïque of photograph of VHS tapes, ID cards, graphic novels, medals, land ownership certificates, letters, etc. making evidence. While, on another level, this work territorializes the space existing between text and image, order and disorder. This world research and recording is a strategy for the production of knowledge. In where art is interrogating the social and cultural ideas of its time. Although with globalisation increasingly more people get to the same message, on a local level, what they do with it, is completely different.
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