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  "description": "Artist in Focus: Anne-Joelle Tan stages friction between shame and desire, collapsing poor images, surveillance and exposure into unstable painting.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T05:16:04.000Z",
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  "textContent": "## When the screen becomes a body\n\n### Anne-Joelle Tan – Painting & Image-Based Practice\n\n**Anne-Joelle Tan** works with painting as a site where circulation leaves residue. Based between digital debris and material insistence, her practice takes images that have already been handled, compressed, misused and turns them into slow surfaces. Wrestlers, burning cars, lace, soiled denim, Craigslist remnants. The vocabulary is familiar, but the arrangement is not.\n\nHer work operates through friction. Low-resolution screenshots, YouTube stills and marketplace listings are transferred, layered and partially buried under oil, toner, screenprint and encaustic. The “poor image” is not referenced nostalgically but structurally. Compression becomes texture. Misplacement becomes composition. Shame is not narrated, it is staged. Viewers are placed in a narrow zone between attraction and discomfort where looking feels complicit.\n\nTan’s background in meme culture remains visible as a logic rather than a style. Circulation, repetition and mutation shape how her paintings function. The boundary between public symbol and private fragment dissolves under wax and pigment. What remains is not clarity but pressure. The screen goes dark. The afterimage lingers.\n\n* * *\n\n**Anne Joelle Tan on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n## Notable Artworks and Studio views\n\nartist in focus, Anne Joelle Tan, painting\n\n* * *\n\n### Get Listet in our Artist in Focus?\n\nCatapult curates artists and exhibitions archive built for long term visibility.\n\n Submit to Catapult → \n\n###",
  "title": "Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic",
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