Jewan Goo is a researcher-artist whose work examines how colonial law conditions visuality—producing regimes of juridical legibility that determine what constitutes evidence. He employs forensic reconstruction and counter-visual inquiry to audit documentation regimes and legal architectures that manufacture historical legitimacy within state archives. He models how records are produced, withheld, and redacted—making visible the epistemic protocols through which archival silences are maintained and visibility is governed.
Treating shadow archives as contested jurisdictions, he reconstructs classificatory protocols and chains of custody that define who may see, record, or verify. His research traces how imperial scopic regimes, spatial apparatuses, and juridical infrastructures organize perception, structure exclusion, and naturalize power through visual norms. Goo uses document forensics, visual reconstruction, and spatial modeling to reveal how institutional epistemologies and juridical logics structure contemporary modes of seeing.
Goo, currently based in Houston, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2025–2027 Core Program Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a recipient of the 2025 AHL–T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award (AHL Foundation, NYC). He has participated in artist residencies at Emmanuel College (2025), Yaddo (2024), and the Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image (formerly the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center) (2024).
Jewan Goo is a researcher-artist whose work examines how colonial law conditions visuality—producing regimes of juridical legibility that determine what constitutes evidence. He employs forensic reconstruction and counter-visual inquiry to audit documentation regimes and legal architectures that manufacture historical legitimacy within state archives. He models how records are produced, withheld, and redacted—making visible the epistemic protocols through which archival silences are maintained and visibility is governed.
Treating shadow archives as contested jurisdictions, he reconstructs classificatory protocols and chains of custody that define who may see, record, or verify. His research traces how imperial scopic regimes, spatial apparatuses, and juridical infrastructures organize perception, structure exclusion, and naturalize power through visual norms. Goo uses document forensics, visual reconstruction, and spatial modeling to reveal how institutional epistemologies and juridical logics structure contemporary modes of seeing.
Goo, currently based in Houston, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2025–2027 Core Program Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a recipient of the 2025 AHL–T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award (AHL Foundation, NYC). He has participated in artist residencies at Emmanuel College (2025), Yaddo (2024), and the Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image (formerly the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center) (2024).
Jewan Goo is a researcher-artist whose work examines how colonial law conditions visuality—producing regimes of juridical legibility that determine what constitutes evidence. He employs forensic reconstruction and counter-visual inquiry to audit documentation regimes and legal architectures that manufacture historical legitimacy within state archives. He models how records are produced, withheld, and redacted—making visible the epistemic protocols through which archival silences are maintained and visibility is governed.
Treating shadow archives as contested jurisdictions, he reconstructs classificatory protocols and chains of custody that define who may see, record, or verify. His research traces how imperial scopic regimes, spatial apparatuses, and juridical infrastructures organize perception, structure exclusion, and naturalize power through visual norms. Goo uses document forensics, visual reconstruction, and spatial modeling to reveal how institutional epistemologies and juridical logics structure contemporary modes of seeing.
Goo, currently based in Houston, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2025–2027 Core Program Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a recipient of the 2025 AHL–T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award (AHL Foundation, NYC). He has participated in artist residencies at Emmanuel College (2025), Yaddo (2024), and the Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image (formerly the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center) (2024).
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Jewan Goo is a researcher-artist whose work examines how colonial law conditions visuality—producing regimes of juridical legibility that determine what constitutes evidence. He employs forensic reconstruction and counter-visual inquiry to audit documentation regimes and legal architectures that manufacture historical legitimacy within state archives. He models how records are produced, withheld, and redacted—making visible the epistemic protocols through which archival silences are maintained and visibility is governed.
Treating shadow archives as contested jurisdictions, he reconstructs classificatory protocols and chains of custody that define who may see, record, or verify. His research traces how imperial scopic regimes, spatial apparatuses, and juridical infrastructures organize perception, structure exclusion, and naturalize power through visual norms. Goo uses document forensics, visual reconstruction, and spatial modeling to reveal how institutional epistemologies and juridical logics structure contemporary modes of seeing.
Goo, currently based in Houston, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2025–2027 Core Program Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a recipient of the 2025 AHL–T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award (AHL Foundation, NYC). He has participated in artist residencies at Emmanuel College (2025), Yaddo (2024), and the Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image (formerly the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center) (2024).
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