Description: This Reader, edited and introduced by noted art historian and critic Gilda Williams, gathers the key critical writings across the artist's essential works as explored through the lens of art history, post-colonial theory, film analysis, and more. Catalogue essays and exhibition reviews on individual works are set alongside Tan's own substantial body of writing: essays, letters, scripts, project notes, as well as discussions of other -artists' work, from Chantal Akerman to Jeff Wall.
Review Quotes: "Everything looks strange and new through Fiona Tan's pensive eyes. That is one of the great gifts of this international artist, daughter of Chinese and Australian parents, born in Indonesia and based in the Netherlands. She seems to be always coming upon each place for the first time. And soon a voice begins to comment on the enigma of arriving in this land of the angels: perhaps we are to think of it as a vision of the afterlife?" --Laura Cumming in The Guardian, December 2018