Morehshin Allahyari

Jun 23, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Emily Alesandrini |Joe Sacksteder |Sumita Chakraborty |Morehshin Allahyari

Alex Jackson’s The House of Asterion (For Borges) (2023) features the first pages of a U.S. passport for the Minotaur, the Greek mythological creature with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man. On the passport, we read the animal’s given name, Asterion (or “star”), and nationality, Labyrinth, written against a background of the American national seal and red and white stripes of a waving U.S. flag — all detailed airbrushed and painted with painstakingly naturalistic precision.