An Artist for the Dystopian Age
Tishan Hsu lives above his Williamsburg, Brooklyn, studio, where an immense skylight keeps a Norfolk Island Pine alive. The miniature green chair was once the artist’s son’s but, these days, Hsu uses it to work on pieces on the floor, like the glassy tank just behind him a cast-off component of a sculpture that grew in another direction.Credit.Flora Hanitijo
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An Artist for the Dystopian Age
For decades, Tishan Hsu has explored the ever more salient relationship between technology and the human body.
Tishan Hsu lives above his Williamsburg, Brooklyn, studio, where an immense skylight keeps a Norfolk Island Pine alive. The miniature green chair was once the artist’s son’s but, these days, Hsu uses it to work on pieces on the floor, like the glassy tank just behind him a cast-off component of a sculpture that grew in another direction.Credit.Flora Hanitijo