MoMA Being: New Photography of 2018
March 10, 2018 10:52 AM   Subscribe

Stephanie Syjuco (previously) is one of the artists on display in MoMA's Being: New Photography of 2018. Her Cargo Cults series "... revisits historical ethnographic studio portraiture via fictional display: using mass-manufactured goods purchased from American shopping malls and restyled to highlight popular fantasies associated with 'ethnic' patterning and costume. Purchased on credit cards and returned for full refund after the photo shoots, the cheap garments hail from the distant lands of Forever21, H&M, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, Target, The Gap, and more."

List of artists included:

Sofia Borges
Matthew Connors
Sam Contis
Shilpa Gupta
Adelita Husni-Bey
Yazan Khalili
Harold Mendez
Aïda Muluneh
Hương Ngô
Hồng-Ân Trương
B. Ingrid Olson
Joanna Piotrowska
Em Rooney
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Andrzej Steinbach
Stephanie Syjuco
Carmen Winant

NYT Article on the exhibition.

NOTE: where I was unable to find the artist's website, I included links to other sites with samples of their work.
posted by hilaryjade (1 comment total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
If they want to use the goods hey should buy them.
This is just encouraging the bad practice of buying goods from the internet, using them, and then returning them for a refund.
Those goods CAN NOT be resold as new and cost the online supply industry a fortune. It does mean that goods will soon cost more online or will be sold with "NO REFUNDS"
posted by Burn_IT at 10:23 AM on March 11, 2018


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