Tavares Strachan’s conceptual, interdisciplinary practice activates connections between art, science, history, and cultural critique to mobilize our senses, intellect and curiosity, asking us to consider our own relationship to what is seen and what is unseen.
For the past decade, Strachan has been building Encyclopedia of Invisibility, an A-to-Z compendium of some 17,000 entries describing stories of the under-recognized and unknown–people, places, events, objects, concepts, and phenomena–based on the layout and logic of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, traditionally regarded as a primary source of world literacy in the pre-Internet age. This ongoing project is a wellspring of stories overshadowed through history which Strachan brings to the fore through various bodies of mixed media work.