Taryn Simon - 'We're All Ghosts of Another Time' | TateShots

American photographer Taryn Simon talks about her Tate Modern exhibition, 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters'.
Simon mixes photography and text in a series works that chart family bloodlines. At the heart of each group of photographic portraits, carefully arranged as 18 horizontal family trees, is a compelling story.
One set documents the relatives of an Iraqi man who was a body double for Saddam Hussein's son; another show members of a religious sect in Lebanon who believe in reincarnation; while the exhibition title comes from a work about a living Indian man who was declared dead in official records.
From feuding families in Brazil to victims of genocide in Bosnia, Simon forms a collection that maps the relationships between chance, blood and other components of fate.
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[@Creatiopoetic]

I've never heard of Taryn until this vid..this was probably one of the most interesting artists I've listened to in some time. Thank you

[@devarajanv8782]

Involves a lot of eye contract with images and photography simply great

[@Curiouscrazy]

this really moved me

[@nicolawillis2325]

This was incredibly interesting. Wow.

[@benismyname2436]

Hands down my favourite Amish artist

[@ReneeMoreno]

Amazing and powerful!

[@Amp1771]

Yeah same here, I like the depth went into arranging everything but personally I just think the way it is nowadays is that if you have an idea no one has done like eating a turkey sandwich with mustard instead of mayo then that's art.

[@TheSmack77]

invaluable overview .many thks for this.

[@robwheaton]

unfortunatety as a viewer of this work it was difficult to gain any sense of the 'storey' due to the sparseness of the exhibit, however the ocd categorising of portraits and objects offered some mild intrigue.

[@linda-ol1dd]

Hey Tate, what's the background music?

[@butterfly6925]

a product of a heavily postmodern education. we will not evolve and continue to be on repeat (at 5.28) if we don't break out of this postmodern bind.

[@denismgallen]

Yesterday i posted a link under this comment, directing to a book about postmodernism being the culture of late capitalism-- and it has disappeared-my gawd the machines have won.

[@ciscogabe2199]

Where is this exhibit located.

[@Poemsapennyeach]

Catalogue-ing. Maybe Taryn should have been a Librarian...but of course she would be forced to stay silent there...that might be hard for her...'we are heading for death' she declares...! Wow...how did she discover that profundity...

[@Demention94]

Poemsapennyeach Lol

[@kopaczkund901]

bureaucrat with a good camera

[@maara000]

you do realize that T. S. doesn't just execute the procedures of work but also invents them (so that the results says something new), which makes your use of the word bureaucrat nonsense/insult, right?

[@RAREFORMDESIGNS]

deep...

[@rofizanozaino876]

Is a scientific process delivered in an artistic way be called Art or is it really just Science?

[@thechump1]

WHAT SHE SAID

[@ariannashrum9068]

those poor rabbits

[@greycloudish]

and..... i love you

[@lloydguillaumegroup]

The borders are a generative system of things. LLCY © 2011

[@eanspace9381]

like

[@joshporter5205]

Frankly, the post modernist till it hurts aesthetics of this just sap all of the interest and real human drama out of this leaving us with some random-seeming photos that may have some relationship to each other once you read a bunch of text next to them. Also, first stop for her was India.. and the text is, of course, in English. That just smacks of recapitulating colonialism for the benefit of a white artist. Its all just... boring.

[@justinbower85]

LAME!

[@ciscogabe2199]

Where is this exhibit located.