MoMA to Present A LIVING MAN DECLARED DEAD AND OTHER CHAPTERS Beginning in May

The Museum of Modern Art presents the first U.S. exhibition of Taryn Simon's (American, b. 1975) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. This powerful, elaborately constructed photographic work was produced over a four-year period (2008-11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting the living ascendants and descendants of a single individual, or "bloodlines," and their related stories.

In each of the "chapters" that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.