Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

In this exhibition photographer Taryn Simon has created a collection of photographs which document the inaccessible places that exist below the surface of American identity. It took her as long as a year to gain permission to photograph some of the high-security zones on view in this body of work, such as government-regulated quarantine sites, nuclear waste storage facilities, prison death rows and C.I.A. offices.

Because her approach tends to be very direct and unsentimental, some images look like they could be museum displays, which only makes these mysterious spaces even more curious and seductive. Through her work, the strangeness of American culture shines.

This exhibition runs 19 December 2009 – 9 May 2010.

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