About The Work
Simultaneously ironic and earnest, the pocket-sized edition Insecurity Card serves as a vulnerable badge of honor, legitimizing an honest admission of one's sense of security - both on a personal and social level, contrasting abruptly with the supposed protections bestowed upon American citizens at birth. In multiple screens of red, white and blue with a unique hand-applied serial number, the artists utilize the traditional American Social Security Card framework as a stage, alluding to the idea that these fallible safety nets are just theatre, at times a comedy or tragedy.
Excerpt from Phaidon's 2023 catalogue Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
"Insecurity Card remakes the familiar US Social Security card as a talisman of precarity. 'I am still just a thing in someone else's story' can be read beneath the card's 'insecurity number'. Evidence of a life is here mapped and tracked inside a nation state that renders some, if not most, vulnerable and without agency. Across all of Simon Evans's work, the interplay between the subjective experience and humanity of the individual, the environmental conditions imposed upon them and the violent inequities of the world finds expression in how form and content come together in text and image."
Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
About Simon Evans™
Screenprint with handwritten collage element on paper
2.36 x 3.54 in
6.0 x 9.0 cm
About The Work
Simultaneously ironic and earnest, the pocket-sized edition Insecurity Card serves as a vulnerable badge of honor, legitimizing an honest admission of one's sense of security - both on a personal and social level, contrasting abruptly with the supposed protections bestowed upon American citizens at birth. In multiple screens of red, white and blue with a unique hand-applied serial number, the artists utilize the traditional American Social Security Card framework as a stage, alluding to the idea that these fallible safety nets are just theatre, at times a comedy or tragedy.
Excerpt from Phaidon's 2023 catalogue Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
"Insecurity Card remakes the familiar US Social Security card as a talisman of precarity. 'I am still just a thing in someone else's story' can be read beneath the card's 'insecurity number'. Evidence of a life is here mapped and tracked inside a nation state that renders some, if not most, vulnerable and without agency. Across all of Simon Evans's work, the interplay between the subjective experience and humanity of the individual, the environmental conditions imposed upon them and the violent inequities of the world finds expression in how form and content come together in text and image."
Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
About Simon Evans™
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