Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images - Georgia Erger - Bog

"Published by the Frye Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images brings together lens-based artworks from the past six years of Syjuco's practice. The catalogue scrutinizes the archive as both concept and tangible thing. Syjuco's photographic interventions in imperial archives demonstrate the ability to see without being seen as the position of power, a stance the colonizer has long recognized and occupied. Across photographs, videos, and installations, Syjuco employs visual disruptions, annotations, and other cues of constructedness. These artistic actions explode the implied innocence of the archival regime, instead urging us to read images-and history-through multiple lenses of narrative distortion"--