2001-2012
Annual post-physical letters
9 in total
Variable installation
Letters From Dr. Bamberger consists of nine letters received from the artist’s former general physician, following annual physical check-ups. The letters could be regarded as a series of commissioned portraits made from language that dryly depicts the state of a body, and that also conveys what is an unusual, privileged occurrence within the dysfunctional and costly American healthcare system. The piece began when Lisa Tan lived in Los Angeles. It continued to be produced after she moved to New York in 2005. It’s when she gained resident status in Sweden where healthcare is socialized that the visits ended. Letters From Dr. Bamberger can be installed as a group or as individual letters dispersed throughout a space or series of spaces.
Photo credit:
Jean-Baptiste Beranger
Exhibition History
84 Steps, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, 2022-21My Pictures of You, Galleri Riis, Oslo, 2019
A nonspatial continuum..., Schleicher/Lange, Berlin, 2013
Le Prince des Rayons, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, 2012
Exhibition for a Transition Function, Hilary Crisp, London, 2011
Two Birds, Eighty Mountains, and a Portrait of the Artist, Arthouse, Austin, 2011
Based on a True Story, Artists Space, New York, 2005
Reviews
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Review: Lisa Tan, Arthouse at the Jones Center." Artforum. April, 2011, p. 222. Print.link / pdf
Rattemeyer, Christian. “First Take.” Artforum. Jan 2006, p. 184-186. Print.
link / pdf