Polarot
2024 - 2025

This series presents a reimagined version of the Major Arcana from the tarot deck, fused with Polaroid and various media. 

Since the Renaissance, tarot cards—both as tools of divination and as symbolic systems—have evolved through successive iterations to form a structuralist system of symbolic power with pre-determined meanings, accessible primarily to specific groups—chiefly occultists. However, over the past century, tarot has gradually transitioned from its esoteric origins into the public sphere, becoming an integral part of popular culture. Despite retaining traces of its elitist narrative, tarot is increasingly being diversified through a multiplicity of interpretative voices, and has been regarded as a decolonizing methodology. 

This series begins from the pre-determined meanings, but proceeds to deterritorialize. It guides people to perceive unique, personal meanings through their reterritorialization of each card, and to confront the fluid nature of meaning itself. 

Symbols, materials, and observers entangle and interact; and with each instance of interaction, meaning begins to flow—like the unfolding of a tarot reading: a specific querent, at a specific moment in time, poses a specific question to a specific reader, and receives a reading whose interpretation exists only within the unrepeatable singularity of that encounter.


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