Rayyane Tabet, Becoming American

Rayyane Tabet: The project is called Becoming American. 

The project as a whole looks at the naturalization exam, which is one of the last components of your path to gain U.S. citizenship, which is a path that I'm on right now, which is called a change of status.

The United States citizenship and immigration services provide study guides for these exams. So in a way you go to the exam. Knowing all the questions and knowing all the answers.

The project as a whole kind of takes this exam as a site of inquiry and kind of takes these questions and these elements out of their context of the exam and distributes them around the museum, in the gallery, online for them to become kind of probing.

For me, it became really interesting to follow the process of the change of status as a philosophical one, a poetic one, an artistic one.