This review examines Tattfoo Tan’s exhibition Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, 2019.
“Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land breaks from Tattfoo Tan’s past focus on environmental consciousness. Here mental health and self-awareness supersede environment, indicating a new avenue in his exploration of ecological activism. Interlinking networks are the basis of ecological inquiry, yet eco-artists very rarely focus on one fundamental link in the ecological chain: interior well-being. Tan posits that individual health must be attained before we can heal the environment…”