Tavares Strachan is a conceptual artist from the Bahamas who builds projects that recover overlooked histories. He observed gaps in his family's encyclopedia and now searches for lost stories to include in his own Encyclopedia of Invisibility. In 2005 he gained acclaim for The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want, which extracted a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice and exhibited it in a solar-powered freezer in the Bahamas. The Encyclopedia of Invisibility features thousands of entries focused on historically marginalized individuals, places, and events. Strachan received a MacArthur Fellowship for his inventive conceptual work. His practice combines research, installation, and archival methods to make invisible histories visible.
At an early age, Tavares Strachan noticed there was a lot missing from his family's encyclopedia.
Today, the artist searches for lost stories to include in his own Encyclopedia of Invisibility.
In 2005, he gained acclaim for his conceptual artwork The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want, for which he extracted a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice and exhibited it in a solar-powered freezer in the Bahamas.
His work, The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, features thousands of entries focused on historically marginalized individuals, places and events.
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