Siesta Children
2016-ongoing
Oil on x-ray film backings
Dimensions variable
In the series Siesta Children, lush, imaginative portraits of youths are rendered using oil paint on X-ray film backing, a specific material that had been used as a painting surface for Phan since 2014. The adolescents are depicted in different scenarios, performing poetic gesture in an amnesiac landscape as described by Zoe Butt: “In Phan’s poetic amnesia we are given a window onto that forbidden landscape, though its gaze is a historical fiction, strewn together by facts discovered in foreign archives and the innocence of childhood”.
