Time Sensitive

Taryn Simon on the Limits of What We Can Know

On Ep. 160, the artist Taryn Simon discusses “Father Country I Do Love You,” her stranger-than-fiction exhibition on view at the Guggenheim Museum (through March 14, 2027) that traces decades of American history through the extraordinary life and career of an unnamed, retired F.B.I. agent; the impossibility of ever fully knowing another person; and how photography can serve as an act of love in the face of time’s inevitability.