2010
letterpress on paper in artist's frame
65 x 85 cm
Edition of 5
The barely visible “blind-stamped” text is lifted from a New York Times article on the June 1, 2009 crash of Air France flight 447, an international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. Starting with "2 Americans", ending with "2 Swedes and a Turk", the alphabetized list of passenger nationalities is a temporary stand-in for a permanent loss. The list, and others like it, begins a curious process of personal and political identification that occurs in relation to nationality.
Exhibition History
Take Form, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, 2014What follows is an ordinary situation, an episode to be related and forgotten, Andreas Grimm München, 2011
Art Brussels, Galerie VidalCugiletta, Brussels, 2011
North Drive Press #5, New York, 2010
Reviews
"Lisa Tan, What follows is an ordinary situation." Monopol Magazin Für Kunst Und Leben. Apr 2011.link / pdf