| Daniel Bejar | selected projects | statement / bio | current | cv | contact | ||||||||||
| Statement As a multi-disciplinary artist my work is informed by questions of collective memory, traces, and histories embedded in contemporary life. Through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and intervention, my practice employs appropriation and recontextualisation towards familiar objects, sites, and situations as a strategy to provoke historical amnesia and subvert ingrained systems of belief. I believe that the past can influence the future, and by employing modes of evocation to bring the past into the present, a rupture is created, which provides an opportunity to pose critical questions through my work. Connecting the past to the present within social and political contexts, projects like “Get Lost! (NYC)” have restored the MTA’s subway map designed in 1979 by Michael Hertz Associates, to what it may have geographically looked like when Henry Hudson first sailed by it’s shores in 1609 ; one hundred year old postcards were returned to their original place of postmark in “Déjà Visite” ; and the American Flag was deconstructed in the “Betsy Ross Trilogy”. My practice aims to peel back the layers of history, where viewers are encouraged to question what is familiar, and envision alternate possibilities. |
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| Bio Daniel Bejar is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Bejar is Bejar's work has been exhibited internationally, with recent venues including El Museo Del |
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