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31 de ago. de 2003 · Taryn Simon: Rear Views, a Star-Forming Nebula, and the Office of Foreign Propaganda Jeu de Paume, Paris, France February 24 – May 17, 2015 Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City , Simon has had work featured in the Venice Biennale (2015).
For nearly a decade, Taryn Simon has immersed herself in the history of the Collection, combing through hundreds of letters, memos, and records that reveal an untold story of radical access to visual material long before the advent of Internet search engines.
Taryn Simon directs our attention to familiar systems of organization—bloodlines, criminal investigations, flower arrangements—making visible the contours of power and authority hidden within.
Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City, Simon has had work featured in the Venice Biennale (2015).
In Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015), Simon considers the stagecraft of power via the accords, treaties, and decrees drafted to influence systems of governance and economics, from nuclear armament to banking conventions and diamond trading.
Taryn Simon is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, text, sculpture and performance. Guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification, her practice involves extensive research into the power and structure of secrecy and the precarious nature of survival.