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Inverted Cave, The New York Times (Accession No.1974.264, from the collection of the Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday)

Stephanie Syjuco

Sensitively Filmed: 1972.3 [CSST.023.06]
This Remarkably Beautiful Photograph: 1971 [CSST.023.01]
Stone Age Serenity: General Clippings [CSST.005.12]
Inverted Cave, The New York Times (Accession No.1974.264, from the collection of the Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday)
Sensitively Filmed: 1972.3 [CSST.023.06], Relief with silkscreen, pigment print, and scored paper on Coventry Rag, 23 x 33 inches, 2023.
This Remarkably Beautiful Photograph: 1971 [CSST.023.01], Relief with silkscreen, pigment print, mylar sleeve, and scored paper on Coventry Rag , 23 x 33 inches, 2023.
Stone Age Serenity: General Clippings [CSST.005.12], Relief with silkscreen, pigment print, transfer, tape, and scored paper on Coventry Rag, 23 x 33 inches, 2023.
Inverted Cave, The New York Times (Accession No.1974.264, from the collection of the Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday), Hand-rubbed photocopy transfer on white Hannemuhle Copperplate paper, 45 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches , 2022.

About the artist

Stephanie Syjuco is a Filipino-American conceptual artist who works in photography, sculpture, and installation, from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations.
Part of an extended print series, this work focuses on photographs and documents from popular newspapers and articles about the Tasaday, a so-called Stone Age tribe “discovered” in the Philippines in 1971. By excerpting images from printed newsclippings and enlarging them to outsized, handmade proportions, Syjuco attempts to show a fragmented narrative that never quite clearly depicts the ethnographic subject itself, but instead focuses on the captions, headlines, adjacent articles, advertisements, and at times humorously ironic public sentiment that the Tasaday inspired.
Read PROOF, the publication brochure for this project, with an essay by Thea Quiray Tagle
Artist working with papers in the foreground of large print shop with people working in the background
Two large prints hanging in the corner of a room
Looking down at prints on press while printer Tom Reed and artist Stephanie Syjuco study the prints.
Stephanie in the Dubinsky Print Shop getting started on some ideas for prints at the beginning of her residency in the fall of 2021.
Two proofs using photocopy transfer method.
Just pulled proofs - Tom and Stephanie contemplate.

Editions from this project

Syjuco islandpress invented eden sensitively filmed 3000px
a trompe l'oiel print with images of photocopies and other news clippings laying in an open manila folder
trompe l'oiel print showing photographs and other ephemera in an open manila folder
black and white image from tiled photocopies with handmade markings from the transfer process