David A. Willis

Renowned for her conceptually-driven photographic projects, the artist Taryn Simon recently teamed up with the architectural firm OMA for her first foray into the realm of performance and installation art as the creative director behind An Occupation of Loss, an event at the Park Avenue Armory in which professional mourners from all over the world were assembled to enact funerary rituals within a bleak, minimalist environment consisting of eleven concrete towers.
Installation view: Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss. Park Avenue Armory, September 13 – 25, 2016. Photo: © Naho Kubota.
The works on display in this multi-venue exhibition include abstract paintings, minimalist sculptures, and sculptural performances of an aleatory nature.
Thomas Kovachevich, Performance of "Two Versions Of The Same Story," (2014). Photograph by Author.

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