Each panel is
a fragment of a personal narrative, and yet when they are exhibited together, they tell a different narrative entirely.
Not exact matches
Tangled Up by Kalup Linzy is an exercise in
narrative, where the artist as storyteller weaves
fragments of personal and collective memory to inform upon a sweeping, yet localized, account
of identity - formation, selfhood and self - fashioning in the current cultural climate.
Drawing on stories, histories,
personal experiences and observations
of day - to - day reality,
fragmented narratives and forms
of subjectivity are constructed through an interplay
of voices and signs.
Drawing from existing (his) stories,
personal experiences and observations
of day - to - day reality,
fragmented narratives and forms
of subjectivity are constructed through an interplay
of voices and signs.
Fallah left the sale with diaries, home movies, clothing and other objects chronicling the family's
personal history; he then spent the course
of the next year sifting through these
fragments of the family's life, filling in the gaps where necessary, to create a
narrative and build portraits
of the family members through painting, sculpture and collage.
It moves between his direct address
of the show («Seeing the paintings and sculptures and models as small images makes me think about remnants») to
fragments of narrative,
personal observation, dreams, and excerpts from poetry and song lyrics.
Personal narrative figures in big here, told in
fragments of salvaged address labels and pieces torn from proofs
of his printmaking work, some painted over by hand.
In lieu
of a
narrative, Clark - Greenberg presents the viewer with
fragments of a
personal history.