Fiona Tan: Correction

A newly-commissioned video installation by Fiona Tan will first be presented at the MCA this October. The new work, Correction, will include several hundred filmed portraits of prisoners and prison guards. Tan, who works in both video and film, is interested in portraying a cross-section of inmates and guards that draws attention to the multitude of citizens whom she feels society prefers to lock away and keep out of sight.

The basis for Correction, the artist's first project in the U.S., exemplifies her interest in incorporating sociological and anthropological principles into photographs and film. Exploring the relationship between the still and moving image, Tan employs what cinematographers in Germany describe as Amerikanisch, the classical medium-portrait shot in film. For her video installations, Tan uses both archival and her own footage, typically recording people in their native countries.

Tan was born in 1966 in Indonesia and currently resides in the Netherlands. The project will be jointly developed by and presented at the MCA; The New Museum, New York; and the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, with the purpose of stimulating creation of new work by artists not yet well known in the United States. The exhibition will be curated by Francesco Bonami, MCA Manilow Senior Curator.

Fiona Tan: Correction is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Generous support has been provided by the American Center Foundation and the Peter Norton Family Foundation. Air transportation is provided by American Airlines, the official airline of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Pressetext

Fiona Tan: Correction