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Syjuco -

Much of Syjuco's work is in the archives; one such project was facilitated by a Smithsonian Fellowship. According to Art in America, "Syjuco’s terminology has its origins in the poststructuralist thinking of Jacques Derrida, who employed the term “anarchivic” to describe the self-effacing impulses of the Freudian death drive." In other words, archivists and historian erase as much as they document. Syjuco seeks to recover what is lost. In another project, The Visible Invisible, Syjuco recreates historical garments symbolizing key moments in America's history out of chroma key green. Surface Design Journal says of this process, "the artist examines how our historical narrative has rendered certain populations invisible, both literally and metaphorically."