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Almine Rech

Taryn Simon A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I - XVIII

Sep 21, 2011 — Jan 1, 2012 | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters was produced over a four-year period (2008-11), during which the artist, Taryn Simon, travelled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen chapters that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance.

The subjects documented by Simon include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein's son Uday, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate…

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Selected artworks

  • Taryn Simon,                                      CHAPTER I (The living dead, India), 2011

    Taryn Simon CHAPTER I (The living dead, India), 2011

    Archival inkjet prints comprised of 3 components
    213,36 x 301,63 cm (framed)

  • Taryn Simon,                                      Chapter XVII (Orphans, Ukraine), 2011

    Taryn Simon Chapter XVII (Orphans, Ukraine), 2011

    Archival inkjet prints comprised of 5 components
    213,36 x 614,36 cm (framed)

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