Fiona Tan: Correction
Images
Fiona Tan, Correction, 2004, Color video installation, Overall dimensions variable, Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2004.26
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago © 2003 Fiona Tan
, Still from Correction, 2004
© Fiona Tan, Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Installation of Fiona Tan:Correction, Oct 2, 2004–Jan 23, 2005, MCA Chicago, Color video installation, Dimensions variable, Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2004.26
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago © 2003 Fiona TanAbout
A newly commissioned video installation by Fiona Tan is the first in a series of projects jointly developed by and presented at the MCA; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, with the purpose of stimulating the creation of new work by artists not yet known in the United States. For her video installations, Tan often uses both archival and new footage, recording people in their native countries. Her new work, Correction, includes several hundred portraits of prisoners and prison guards filmed at correctional institutions in the US. Tan's project portrays a cross-section of inmates and guards, drawing attention to the multitude of citizens whom she feels society prefers to lock away and keep out of sight. Tan, who works in both film and video, employs what cinematographers in Germany describe as Amerikanisch, the classical medium-portrait shot in film, revealing her interest in incorporating sociological and anthropological principles into the relationship between the still and moving image. Tan was born in 1966 in Indonesia and currently resides in the Netherlands.
This exhibition is curated by Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami with Assistant Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm.
Funding
Fiona Tan: Correction is part of The Three M Project, a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation. Fiona Tan: Correction is also supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and The Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
Air transportation is provided by American Airlines, the official airline of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
