Taryn Simon on the art of mourning and how social media is shaping grief

Taryn Simon is a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture and performance. She was born and raised in New York, where she has been working since her graduation from Brown University in 1997. Informed by extensive research,

I’m interested in the questions that keep you up at night – what we are doing here, if there’s purpose—but driving at the unanswerable through something that appears tangible.

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