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Artist Talk: Stephanie Syjuco

Filipino-American artist Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974) explores how color, creed, and citizenship are performed by those who aspire to be seen as actors in the political spectrum. Across a variety of visual languages that merge artistic disciplines of installation, sculpture, craft, and photography with broader cultural forums of fashion, flags, commerce, and online image sharing, she surveys the way populations are both imagined and obscured by the culture and technology of seeing. Syjuco explains that as an immigrant to America, “I’ve had to myself construct an identity based on a collage of visuals and influences, each telling me what I am supposed to culturally be.” In today’s polarizing socio-political environment where one’s ethnicity is taken to presume their identity, Syjuco examines the continued negotiation between so-called universal standards and the dialects of difference.