{"id":3135,"date":"2011-06-30T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T11:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2011-06-30T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T11:22:37","slug":"taryn-simon-a-living-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/taryn-simon-a-living-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Taryn Simon\u2019s art has become as much about tightening a drawstring of internal rules and regulations as crossing red tape and returning with a startling picture. A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, which shows at Tate Modern until November 6, is the artist\u2019s latest anthropological exploration and personal endurance test. Simon has previously documented America\u2019s hidden sights, censured the photograph\u2019s function as a credible eyewitness, and spent days without sleep recording seized items at John F Kennedy international airport. Her new exhibit goes even beyond these works in its scale and complexity and passes the borders of her native America. It is confrontational in its presentation but remains a powerful testament to survival against the odds.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Occupying five rooms and crafted into a 773-page book that should come with its own lectern, the work is a systematic record of 18 bloodlines or Chapters and their related stories. As with <em>An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar<\/em> (2007), Simon has unearthed an arbitrary selection of curious or nightmarish scenarios and invites us to analyse each as meticulously as she has brought them to our attention. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"tarynsimon2_470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tarynsimon2_470.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Installation view, \u00a9 Eleanor Farmer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Entering the close-to-sterile space, we are informed of the \u2018Ordering Principle\u2019. \u201cPortraits are arranged in linear format. They are read in rows from left to right, top to bottom.\u201d What strikes you first are the bright, chalky frames of Simon\u2019s \u2018non-place\u2019: the ubiquitous backdrop for each subject, which conceals the \u2018undisclosed\u2019 context. Rows of people rest like sunken yolks within their shells, victims of fate, whose blank expressions suggest that they have ceased to regard their own environment. The cumulative effect of this line-up is terrifying; resonating with pictures of the missing or the dead. Even before reading the stories of lined-up corpses, corrupt officials, and troubling beliefs the outlook is dark. <\/p>\n<p>Maximising the seduction of visual order, Simon sets out three framed components of each chapter: the portraits; a textual account of the subject or \u2018point person\u2019; the name, birth date, profession and current place of residence of each member of the bloodline; and a selection of pictures or \u2018footnotes\u2019 which relate to the chosen story. We encounter Jura Ondjio, a polygamous healer; Nexir Nuki\u0107 and Zumra Mehi\u0107, parent\u2019s of children killed in the Srebrenica massacre; Latif Yahia, who claims to have been the body double of Saddam Hussein\u2019s son; and the man of the title, Shivdutt Yadev, who discovered he had been officially declared dead so that relatives could inherit his land. Unique histories determined by blood, chance, and geography, battle the repetitive, homogenizing presentation. Simon\u2019s reflection of life\u2019s \u2018unending, machine-like churning out of stories\u2019, shows us a bigger picture, and calls its parts into question.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"tarynsimon3_470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tarynsimon3_470.jpg?resize=470%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"303\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Inside view of <em>A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters <\/em>publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two visually striking chapters benefit greatly from the neutral aggregations. The first tells the tale of 24 European rabbits introduced to Australia in 1859. Within one hundred years, the rabbit population grew to half a billion. We are looking at 108 rabbits, all destined for a premature death as the subjects of a test to determine the effectiveness of a virus used to control the explosive rabbit population. Some wide-eyed specimens look alert to their impending doom and others, innocently oblivious. In the footnotes, we find a rabbit eyeball in a test tube: the scientific dissection of cute. Even the pragmatic observer, when faced with man\u2019s control and mis-control of nature may feel their nose twitch.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second startling visual is of a group of children from a Ukranian orphanage. These children have no known bloodline and are therefore grouped together, both on paper and in reality. They are smartly turned out, as though ever-ready for an adoption interview. The only smile in the entire exhibition comes from child number 66, another orphan whose name is withheld. This fragile smile and the information that only one child has been adopted in the last twelve months could make you weep, but this is not the kind of emotional impact for which it has been framed. <\/p>\n<p>The work belongs in the context of the gallery, but there is certainly an advantage to additionally viewing the book \u2013 particularly for a lingering look at the \u2018footnotes\u2019 section, whose stunningly beautiful images would be worthy of their own exhibition. A picture of Tongyeong Port where Choe Janggeun was last seen before his reported abduction by North Korean agents, shows lights reflected on the water like a chromosome map. Other strangely enigmatic scenes include Said Bou Hamdan reenacting his watery death and the history classroom at the Ukranian orphanage, where a sign above the blackboard reads \u2018Those who do not know their past are not worthy of their future\u2026\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"tarynsimon_470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tarynsimon_470.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Taryn Simon at Tate Modern \u00a9 Eleanor Famer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>History is already leaving red pen on Simon\u2019s texts and gradually these photographs will all become records of the dead: a tidy memento of the witless promise of mortality. Flattening the lines of \u2018chance, blood and other components of fate\u2019, Simon creates a powerful illusion that we might be able to decode the laws of humankind or recognize the small print to which we have all unwittingly signed. But just as Simon has toiled for her art we too must work if we want to identify the patterns and puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters by Taryn Simon is at the Tate Modern until 6 November, 2011<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"review_photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mackbooks.co.uk\/images\/Mack.Simon_02.ALMDD_11.jpg?w=100\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/em><em><br \/>A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters <\/em>published by MACK.<br \/>\u00a380<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Eleanor Farmer reviews Taryn Simon&#8217;s current Tate Modern exhibition: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[1969,1972,1971,1983,53,1967,46,1974,1977,1970,1975,1973,1819,1820,1980,3257,1978,1982,1979,112,1981,1966,1968,1984,1976],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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