The primary protagonist in these works is often the artist herself, surrounded by a web
of narrative fragments, the connections between which are both highly individualized and richly suggestive.
Southwestern Medallion and Zig Zag Rug is currently on view through the end of this month in the group exhibition
entitled Narrative Fragments, at Quidley & Company in Boston, MA.
Through the adoption of a heroic character visualized
in narrative fragments, Roy's imagery enters into a charming Sherman-esque masquerade of self - as - other still cinema.
Beginning with a
simple narrative fragment, and allowing chance to take over, the situations Alӱs creates or highlights are both poetic and politically resonant.
His vignettes borrow from theatrical principles to stage
eerie narrative fragments, often bordering on the tragicomic and grotesque.
The twelve short video sequences were shown on a nightly basis and without any introduction, and
feature narrative fragments unfolding in ordinary or banal settings.
Rather, spatial design provides participants the freedom to forge their own routes, to glimpse parts of the story that perhaps no - one else notices, to weave together the nonlinear collection
of narrative fragments that is unique to each individual's experience and create one's own interpretation of how they're all connected.
That's a solid, timeless story, but it gets utterly lost in a jumble of ideas, themes and
narrative fragments.
There's an out - of - left - field abduction and a marital tiff over email addresses; but
these narrative fragments, lazily tossed together alongside a neglected supporting cast, are no more than a flimsy causeway connecting bonking sessions.
In any Egoyan movie, however, there comes a point at which the ensemble's collective neuroses reach a critical mass, which is paradoxically the very point at which Egoyan begins reassembling
his narrative fragments into a recognizable shape.
Whether her work portrays a series of
narrative fragments or a single evocative scene repeated over and over, Friedman heightens the emotional impact by cutting directly to the film's climax in order to, as she puts it, «get to the part you really care about.»
Fridfinnsson's work begins with
a narrative fragment, taken from folklore, Icelandic mythology, literature, everyday objects, or his upbringing in a stark Nordic landscape.
Narrative Fragments, includes approximately 30 paintings by 20 artists who convey narrative content in their work through a synthesis of representational subject matter and the materiality and application of their medium.
I was recently invited to participate in the group exhibition entitled
Narrative Fragments, at Quidley & Company Fine Art in Boston, MA.