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Fiona Tan

<p><em>Pickpockets</em> (2020-ongoing) is a multi-channel video installation based on an eponymous album containing photographs of pickpockets that Fiona Tan came across during a studio residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. The pickpockets, who hailed from internationally diverse backgrounds, had been arrested at the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. The sitters are professionally lit and photographed, and some basic information is added below their image: name, age, date of arrest, sentence. The artist invited authors and playwrights (Sophie Berrebi, Sacha Bronwasser, Nathalie Alonso Casale, Niels Dijkstal, Mark O’Halloran, Tim van Hoewijk, and Robert Vernooy) to write texts from the perspective of the individuals portrayed in the album and these monologues were recorded by actors. ‘I’m stealing voices from the pickpockets,’ Tan says. What inferences can be drawn from the portrait of a person? <em>Pickpockets</em> investigates the contested realm of representation, exploring history and time as well as our place within them.<br /><br />Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia) has made carefully crafted and intensely compassionate works in expanded film and video installations since the mid-1990s. In her work, she investigates how we represent ourselves and the mechanisms that determine how we interpret the representation of others. Tan lives and works in Amsterdam.</p>

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Peter Freeman, Inc., Frith Street Gallery

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