Author: Syjuco, StephanieFilipino American artist Stephanie Syjuco rephotographs and reconstructs photographs from museum and library collections to reveal the instability of images and the violence of the colonial gaze. Across her photographs, videos and installations, Syjuco employs visual disruptions, annotations and other cues of constructedness: artistic actions that explode the implied innocence of the archival regime. This full colour catalogue includes essays and commentary from various contributors. Syjuco's most recent projects have dealt with materials relating to early 20th-century American imperialism in the Philippines, including ethnological displays from the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. This is artist’s first monograph, and accompanies a solo exhibition of her recent lens-based artworks. Essays by writer and art critic Aruna D’Souza, exhibition curator Georgia Erger and scholar Ekalan Hou offer insight into Syjuco’s quest that we read images—and history—through multiple lenses of narrative distortion.ISBN 9781646570386. Frye Art Museum. pb. 128 pages. 75 colour, 0 b/w ills. 24.1 x 16.5 cm.available to order
