LAN TUAZON

It inspires me to think that reality is an unfinished project. When I look at the built world, I know it exists at the erasure of other possibilities. You can make up the difference if you're a builder, but the goal is not to rebuild everything, but to create the double that reminds you that possibilities are in the making... Inspired by Michel Foucault's Order of Things and grounded by Walter Benjamin's definition of political art as the retraining of the senses, I see art as an imperative for survival. With a background in anthropology and photography, I inherited the critique and crisis of representation from the Pictures Generation. Beyond theory, it's even quicker to experience social constructs when you're an immigrant. As an artist, I've been educated to systematically act out and question inadequate and repressive descriptive systems by Hans Haacke, Martha Rosler, Jimmie Durham, Charles Gaines and William Pope L. Their ideas helped me dismantle the chip on my shoulder that was..

Primary location: New York United States