Quote of Note | Taryn Simon

Excerpt from Chapter XV of Taryn Simon’s “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII” (2012), on view through September 3 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

“Well, in my latest work ‘A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII,’ I’ve tried to do that, in a way: to articulate certain systems, patterns, and codes through design and narrative. I traveled around the world researching and recording eighteen bloodlines and their related stories.

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