Through photography and installation, Amanda Taves explores identity against the backdrop of a fluctuating social world. She employs commonplace elements such as home interiors, personal objects, and techniques typically reserved for criminal investigation to inspire viewer narratives. Negotiating the expansive economic, political, and religious topography of Chicago’s disparate communities, her work serves to deconstruct the physical and psychological boundaries segregating the city by placing viewers centrally within the landscape. This perspective offers viewers the opportunity to play witness to the private lives of others while highlighting the mutability of one’s own thoughts, opinions, and judgments; transforming the passive act of viewing into a state of active self-reflection.
Amanda has installed Bayesian/Bindle at Uss Gallery’s Residential Satellite Space. The piece includes permanently fixed fingerprints on the banisters in the stairwell and a small book documenting her exploration of the home and environs in relationship to the fingerprint dusting. The book will be released December 1st at Uss Gallery as part of our opening for our new bookstore.