particulated matter

THE VILLAGE: SMALL ENCAMPMENTS
By Stephanie Syjuco
2009

full color, paperback, 92 pages
US $29.95

Expanding on an earlier photographic series, this book documents an installation that intersects two seemingly disparate narratives: a documentary portrait of my domestic space with a completely constructed and fantasized “homeland.” Culled from tourist photos of the Philippines downloaded from the internet, the small cut-out dioramas form little embedded colony encampments and outposts within an apartment environs.

Comparative Morphologies: Complete Variations
by Stephanie Syjuco

Paperback, 35 pages
October 9, 2006
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Companion catalog to the 2001 “Comparative Morphologies” print series. Includes full-page, full-color images of each print, including a brief project description. From the Introduction: “What look like vintage natural history studies turn out to be, on closer inspection, images of computer and technological cords and peripherals, each slightly manipulated to take on organic characteristics: a fused or sprouting growth from a stem, a viral infection, a radial symmetry…”

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Misproductions: Stephanie Syjuco
by Stephanie Syjuco

Paperback, 110 pages
October 9, 2006
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Full-color folio spanning ten years of the artist’s works, including installation, sculpture, drawings, photography, and other media. From the introduction: “Using mostly cheap materials like foamboard, contact paper, tape, scrap wood, and laserjet prints—-I have made images and objects that reference architectural or scientific diagrams, electronic equipment, cityscapes, mass-produced goods, and contemporary artworks. What interests me are the mis-translations or mis-appropriations (be they purposeful or accidental) that happen when an image or concept is remade and shifted away from their correct territories, and especially when traveling from the “top” (i.e. the global) on “downwards” (localized communities)…”