A country is born bloody: Taryn Simon and the human cost of modernity
The author reviews Taryn Simon’s exhibition 'Father Country I Do Love You' at the Guggenheim Museum, reflecting on the human cost of modernity depicted in the work.
I entered Taryn Simon’s Father Country I Do Love You with no theory, only curiosity. Beginning at the bottom of the Guggenheim’s ramp, I worked upward, believing observation might keep me outside the material. Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral, ordinarily an architectural seduction, soon felt more like a tightening coil. The first image that confronted me...
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