Description: Art exploring global themes from trade routes to climate change and forced migration.
Lavishly illustrated, this is the first scholarly monograph to provide a comprehensive introduction to the multi-disciplinary artist's work over the last twenty-five years. Best known for her extraordinarily drawn or embroidered maps, Chung's artwork pointedly reveals histories that have too often been overlooked or intentionally ignored. Tiffany Chung excavates the complex, hidden entanglements that shape landscapes, built environments, international conflicts, trade routes, and human migration. Chung's archival research fills in the gaps that official records overlook or intentionally disremember to reveal systems of power and cycles of transformation. Multidisciplinary scholars frame her artworks within the interconnected themes of exodus and diaspora, memory and history, mapping and excavation, and climate and conflict.Brief description: Orianna Cacchione is the deputy director and curator of exhibitions at the University of Richmond Museums.