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Stephanie Syjuco is interested in seeing the mundane and commonplace
take on new meaning by using familiar materials in unconventional
ways. Her work explores the intersection of culture, nature, and
technology. She uses high and low materials to create objects that,
at first glance, appear to mimic and blur the boundaries between
fact and fiction.
"Black Market" is an installation consisting of photography,
video and sculpture exploring aspects of place, specifically the
artist’s place of birth, The Philippines. In a photographic
series downloaded images of marketplaces have been digitally altered
by blacking out the commodities (mainly produce, foodstuffs and
other commonly traded items in local markets). "Body Double,"
is a 120 minute video loop of the movie Platoon (largely shot in
The Philippines) altered to depict a moving sequence of tropical
landscape seen through cropped squares and rectangles. With all
human presence removed from the film, flora and fauna stand in as
a double for Syjuco’s place of birth offering a "reworked"
home movie. Lastly, the artist has bound together and covered commercial
items in a black papier- maché skin. These black sculptures
are displayed on recycled IKEA melamine furniture. The objects become
strange new products that have entered into an alternative form
of production and consumption.
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