Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images explores how photographs and archives shape our understanding of history, power, and belonging. Oakland artist Stephanie Syjuco engages with and manipulates photographs and objects from US institutional archives, making visible the tools and choices behind image-making. Through cutting, layering, pixelating, crumpling, and rephotographing, she “talks back” to the archive, repurposing its tools to care for and return agency to the people represented within it. Throughout the exhibition, chromakey green, staged photographs, props, mannequins, and video installatio…