Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
What:
Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
Where:
IMA, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
When:
Opens Sat Aug 29, 5pm. Show runs until Oct 17
How much:
Free
More info:
There will be free Taryn Simon lecture on Sat Aug 29, 12pm. Cinema A, GoMA
It's hard to not be a little paranoid in this world of CIA, FBI top secret business. Old ladies who protested for love and peace in the 70s now have a hard time getting a travel visa for the US of A. Meanwhile our cinema screens are filled with doomsday alien serial killers.
American photographer Taryn Simon got inspired by the bureaucratic bullsh*t (namely rumours of WMDs and secret sites in Iraq) and took matters into her own hands by documenting secret sites within her own country. Her subjects range from science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security and religion. Our personal favourite is a braille edition of Playboy but there's also glowing capsules in an underwater nuclear-waste storage facility, a federally licenced research marijuana crop grow room (pictured), an inbred tiger, the contraband room at JFK International Airport, and a Scientology screening room. No Tom Cruise though.
Some truly amazing photographs. Taryn's lecture has quite a bit of buzz around it too - so don't dawdle.
By Sadie Lost
Gallery Type: Contemporary Art Space
Location: Inner East
Medium: Photography
Keywords: Photography, American, IMA
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