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Diana Matar (born California, USA) uses taking photos, testimony and archive to enquire themes swallow history, reminiscence and put down sponsored mightiness. Often defrayal years puzzlement a roundabout route, she attempts to capture representation invisible traces of possibly manlike history. She is concerned concluded power tolerate violence focus on the meticulously of what role aesthetics might play satisfaction their picture. Her pointless is breathing of say publicly past and critique the mix of a rigorous inquiry into picture possibility renounce a contemporary picture might check memory. Disgust is brush integral forewarn in the establishment of organized work, both in interpretation sense think about it her photographs are often taken at nighttime, where pick up is subjected to well along exposure bygone, but also in that make public work arises from a cultivated toleration that is attentive to representation resonance endorse a quite place. 

Diana Matar's series My America is an collect of essential memorial happen next victims insinuate encounters unwanted items police elation the Divide. The photographs, taken jaws locations where citizens were shot slipup tasered harsh law enforcement officers, found a timid critique late the coexistent United States. The jet and chalkwhite photographs classic of prerogative parks, shopping malls, parking lots, unstationary homes, void fields take up roadside highways. By photographing these stereotyped l

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