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Curio
Collaborator: Lauren Lee | @laurenhyelee
Lan and Lee focus on capturing memory throughout shifting communities and spatial landscapes, synthesizing their new artist collaboration and inaugural artist book Curio.
Curio explores the fraught and intertwined relationship between Chinatown natives and tourists through a photographic narrative interspersed with archival materials from the Godzilla artist group, exploring similar questions in the 1990s. The spreads of Curio contain photographs by Lan, juxtaposed with Godzilla-related ephemera from art to memos acting as an interrogation of how this relationship has changed from the 90s to now.
Through this handbound, risograph printed book and with a special attention to archival material and photography, Lan and Lee explore qualities of layering, opacity and mutability of the medium as a means to communicate those same layered, opaque, and mutable social relationships that occupy Manhattan’s Chinatown. Less concerned with printing photographs and material with the highest quality, Lan and Lee challenge themselves with how the process of risograph captures these concepts in a way that parallels memory—messily and imperfectly.