Stephanie Hueon Tung, guest editor of Aperture's "Being & Becoming: Asian in America" issue, on the artists confronting the tensions between past and present and what it means to be Asian in America.
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In her latest solo exhibition, Oakland artist Stephanie Syjuco powerfully demonstrates how photography is one imperialism’s most effective tools. Made by mining archives for images of Indigenous Filipinos, her show at Catharine Clark Gallery,
Native Resolutions examines photography, anthropology and archiving as overlapping knowledge structures that shape both imagination and American history. The resulting (and absorbing) multimedia installation considers the effect and force of institutional practices that bury racism in historical records.
During a two-week artist residency in 2019 supported in part by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Syjuco plumbed the city’s archives for pictures of the Philippine Reservation, the 47-acre site within the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The result is