Group Exhibition Only Reliable Narrators

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Zahra Komeylian, Raw Silk and Uncut Wood, (detail) (catalog image of Ana Mendieta’s Creek (1974), bubble wrap, glassine, acetate print), from the series Water over marsh, 2022. Courtesy of the artist
Zahra Komeylian, Raw Silk and Uncut Wood, (detail) (catalog image of Ana Mendieta’s Creek (1974), bubble wrap, glassine, acetate print), from the series Water over marsh, 2022. Courtesy of the artist

The group exhibition Only Reliable Narrators contemplates the critical ways that narratives and stories work to structure collective ideas of truth, history, power, science, self, and hope. In the artists’ works, fictitious personae, imaginary archetypes, and speculative histories guide audiences towards familiar, affective truths, while factual records and normative myths break down under the demands of their presumed authority. The works employ a range of experimental narrative strategies, alternately playing with the line between fact and fiction, and interrogating the norms governing the distinction at its base.

Erdem Tasdelen, The Characters: Act I, 2019 (mixed-media audio installation, approx. 60 mins). Courtesy of the artist and The Bows. Photo by Katy Whitt.
Erdem Tasdelen, The Characters: Act I, 2019 (mixed-media audio installation, approx. 60 mins). Courtesy of the artist and The Bows. Photo by Katy Whitt.

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