Stephanie Syjuco’s Proposition: Benefiting From Not-Knowing Before Knowing

Syjuco’s Proposition is a bodily experience, a feeling as well as the thoughts that attend it. The mind ricochets between disinterest and interest, from the object’s beauty to the desire to purchase it, from frustration at the object’s unattainability to engagement, even wonder, as the Commemorative Store achieves the rare state for a conceptual art object: its punch—not punch line—is visceral as well as intellectual.

Rob Marks of DailyServing weighs in on Stephanie Syjuco’s The International Orange Commemorative Store (A Proposition) in the third installment of his series #museumpractices: The Museum on My Mind.

Stephanie Syjuco, The International Orange Commemorative Store (A Proposition), 2012 (installation view); photo: Jan Stürmann