'towards a new theory of color reading' by stephanie syjuco

stephanie syjuco is a filipino artist who now lives and works in san francisco. you may recall her ‘counterfeit crochet’ and ‘contemporary stonehenge’ projects, which we featured in the past. for her most recent exhibition at the contemporary arts museum in houston, texas syjuco created ‘towards a new theory of color reading’, a set of newspapers that have blocks of color instead of news.

yellow = text, black = newspaper info, cyan = photos, red / magenta = advertisements. the original source material for comes from editions of filipino-american newspapers and other local ethnic journals. you can see the installation from now until february 22, 2009.

stephanie syjuco: http://www.stephaniesyjuco.com contemporary arts museum in houston: http://www.camh.org — via rhizome