Passing the Baton, 2005 - 2007
Open
Source Art, Chicago, IL
Passing The BatonPassing the Baton, displays my archive
as a sculptural photo installation alongside my mother’s massive
cookbook collection/archive and my on-going series, Food.
A family portrait in a sense, the duel archives demonstrate
the similarities between my photo archive (a personalized system that
stores over 80,000 photographs that range from images of my ancestors,
childhood images, college images, to my current images), my processes
for creating images, and my mother’s cookbook archive; which personifies
a method of meticulously marking down, in her cookbooks, all the recipes
she has ever used. This seemingly inherited tradition of documenting within
the my family was only recently discovered by me when my mother began
to clean out and store her cookbooks.
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My series Food is a display of the direct correlation between mother and daughter. Food features a diverse range of cuisine and provisions that I has consumed and documented for the past few years. Whether the images convey a half-eaten birthday dinner or a melted, unappealing piece of chocolate, this series displays an ironic reality that is both humorous and disturbing. In the gallery, Food is displayed on walls, and the archives are displayed together in a large vitrine in the center of the gallery.
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