Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images

This catalogue is published by the Frye Art Museum in conjunction with Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images, an exhibition focused on the camera as a technology that records and constructs American histories. In her photographs, videos, and installations, Syjuco employs visual disruptions, annotations, and other gestures that call attention to the power dynamics at work within images and archives. Offering a deeper look into the artist’s complex practice, this monograph presents essays by writer Aruna D’Souza, art historian Ekalan Hou, and exhibition curator Georgia Erger alongside full-color reproductions of Syjuco’s works spanning from 2018 to 2023. 

Stephanie Syjuco (born 1974, Manila, Philippines) works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of radicalized, exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Oakland. 

Softcover, 128 pages