Fiona Tan: Correction is an extensive video installation comprising approximately 300 video portraits of inmates and guards from four U.S. prisons projected on six hanging screens. In Correction, Fiona Tan portrays a cross-section of people who inhabit prisons, drawing attention to the multitude of citizens whom society prefers to keep out of sight. Each 40-second portrait features an anonymous inmate or guard standing as still as possible in front of the camera. The portraits are framed from the waist up, a reference to the Amerikanische Einstellung (the American shot) technique used in Hollywood in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. Seen on large hanging screens, the images confront the viewer as powerful photographic portraits in motion. The work reveals Tan’s interest in incorporating sociological and anthropological principles into the relationship between the still and moving image.

• Trefwoorden
  gevangenis, monografie, video, beeld- en/of geluidsdrager
• Geografisch trefwoord
  Indonesië (ID)
• Persoonstrefwoord
  Fiona Tan