Art critic Stamatina Gregory states that “language itself inevitably involves questions of power relations and forms of domination.” The title of Tavares Strachan’s first exhibition at Fergus McCaffrey, St. Barth, How to Make Someone Invisible, offers a great deal to ponder.
Fantastical in tone, this title could be the opening line from a magician’s act, a coldly framed question for biological inquiry, or an investigation of historical revisionism. Strachan has spent the past decade investigating the nature of invisibility, as well as the way a given society determines which aspects of culture become part of its historical narrative and which parts are erased. The artist is considering aesthetics as part of society’s established power structure that guides who and what becomes relevant over time.
