Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.
Taryn SimonMy work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
Taryn SimonArchives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.
Taryn SimonIn my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
Taryn SimonSimulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.
Taryn Simon