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Taryn Simon. Born in 1975 in New York, artist Taryn Simon received a BA in art semiotics from Brown University in 1997, while concurrently taking photography classes at the Rhode Island School of Design, both Providence. Her practice incorporates photography, text, and graphic design. Known for applying classification systems to troves of ...
May 2, 2012 · Exhibition. May 2–Sep 3, 2012. This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon’s (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the 18 “chapters ...
62 Artworks: Taryn Simon. Smith & Wesson 44 Magnum Revolver Frame Smith & Wesson Headquarters Springfield Massachusetts, 2004-2007. Galerie Tanit. US$34,000. Taryn Simon. Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement. Caracas, Venezuela, October 30, 2000, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015. Gagosian.
In Taryn Simon’s performance work An Occupation of Loss (2016), professional mourners enact rituals of grief, simultaneously broadcasting their lamentations from within a sculptural installation. This video by filmmaker Boris B. Bertram documents the April 2018 performance of this work with Artangel in Islington, London.
Like the brain, The Conversation Machine —videos, interviews, and orchestration by Taryn Simon, produced by Fondazione Prada for the exhibition—is a self-organizing system. It responds to itself, continually constructing and assimilating its own order and disorder. In clips excerpted from over 140 hours of interviews, participants appear to ...
Taryn Simon ’s The Innocents documents the stories of individuals who have served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. The project was first published in 2003 and was exhibited at MoMA PS1 that same year. The Innocents stands as a profoundly important photographic and textual record of some of the earliest DNA-based ...
Taryn Simon. Contraband. Contraband (2010) comprises 1,075 photographs taken at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. For one working week, Taryn Simon remained on site at JFK and continuously photographed ...
