Maureen Anderson’s video installation is composed of over 1,800 mug shots of people wanted on drug charges by the Florida Department of Corrections. At present in the U.S., there are more than 2 million people incarcerated many of them on minor drug charges. In many ways, this criminal activity is the product of its own solution: as the justice system becomes more and more a part of the market economy, it needs to incarcerate more and more people. Anderson’s looped video portraits give faces to some of this anonymous mass of forgotten individuals.
Maureen Anderson was born in 1977 and received her MFA in Public Art in 2006 from Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. She works in many media including performance, painting, photography and writing as ways to explore human identity. She has exhibited in New York and Germany, and is currently living in South Korea.
