Stephanie Syjuco's 'Native Resolutions' Won't Let Racism Remain Filed Away
(Courtesy Catharine Clark Gallery) 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 ...