{"id":53244,"date":"2005-04-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-website.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/exhibition-44\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:15:21","slug":"exhibition-44","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/exhibition-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Tan: Countenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Countenance<\/em>&nbsp;presents three film and photographic installations by internationally renowned artist Fiona Tan.<\/p>\n<p>The film and photography-based installations of Fiona Tan are thought provoking explorations of collective memory and the formulation of identity through images. She is particularly interested in &#8220;how we use or need images to find and navigate our way in the world\u201d. Her use of anthropological and archival film footage and photographic material is as straightforward as it is subtle, moving easily between simple scenes captured from everyday life and epic narratives that conjure history, place and time. Tense with the relationships between viewer and viewed, and between still and moving image, Tan\u2019s work is also redolent with what Adrian Searle has described as &#8220;visual texture, pleasure and human incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new and recent work presented at Modern Art Oxford is <em>Countenance<\/em> (2002), first presented at <em>Documenta 11<\/em> in Kassel in 2002. For this multi-channel film installation, Tan drew inspiration from August Sander\u2019s (1876-1964) vast photographic project, <em>People of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century<\/em>, recording on 16mm film the portraits of several hundred people living in Berlin from different professions and social backgrounds. In describing her motivations for the work, Tan has stated: \u2018\u2019I am curious to find out how much society has changed since Sander\u2019s time. At the same time, I call into question this very practice of general characterisation the way we form notions of society as a whole.\u201d Presented alongside <em>Countenance<\/em> is <em>News from the Near Future<\/em> (2003), a sepia toned meditation on water, time and memory, and <em>Vox Populi<\/em> (2004), a vast photographic narrative that charts the life stories of more than one hundred families in Norway across several generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53245,"template":"","event_type":[230],"audience":[],"class_list":["post-53244","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_type-archive","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fiona Tan: Countenance at Modern Art Oxford<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This exhibition presents three film and photographic installations by internationally 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