CAMPBELL, Joyce, 1971-
Mindanao 1 (Photograph)
Often using photographic processes to
make her installations of images, Joyce
Campbell has long been concerned with
representing scientific knowledge in her art.
While resident in Los Angeles in 2002, she
made a series of images titled Marianas and
Mindanao, referring to the submarine trenches
situated in the north-west Pacific. Whereas the
name Marianas derives from Queen Mariana of
Austria, widow of Philip IV, as a reminder of the
area’s seventeenth century Spanish colonists,
Mindanao comes from Maguindanaons, the
largest Sultanate historically.
