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A deep dive into the life and practice of the conceptual artist creating work that is ""always encyclopedic, engrossing, disconcerting and engaging"" —the Guardian Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Lushly packaged in burgundy leatherette with foil stamping and a ribbon marker, The Day Tomorrow Began unites new and old works by the Bahamanian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan (born 1979), whose practice spans sculpture, painting, text, music and performance in order to probe the intersections of art, science and politics. The book features images from exhibitions in which the artist has transformed gallery rooms into immersive multisensory environments—such as a field of rice grass populated with ceramic figures—alongside reproductions of new monumental sculptures. Interviews with figures from Strachan's life—including his mother, Ella Strachan, and his friend Christina ""Muffin"" Fernander—illuminate his background and bring to life key themes in his work, particularly the absences enshrined in mainstream historical narratives.

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Strachan’s exhibition suggests the ephemeral nature of the ideas that are rendered in marble and bronze. Monuments may be designed to be permanent, but they can be turned inside out and upside down by us and by the course of history. And old deceptions can be made to reveal new truths. -- Carolina A. Miranda * The New York Review of Books *

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