Bending the Word / MATRIX 226

Bending the Word / MATRIX 226

September 28, 2008 - February 8, 2009

Each story told is an act of shaping the world. Completely fantastical narratives are obviously the invention of an imagined world, but narratives rooted in the real world are deeply subjective as well. In the omission or inclusion of various details, in the tenor of delivery, the storyteller finds his or her own reality within the larger frame of our collective reality. Bending the Word brings together four artists who actively reinterpret larger shared narratives, from ancient fables and religious texts to official histories and current events. They do so by commingling fact and fiction, recovering lost histories, inserting the deeply personal and anecdotal, connecting disparate narratives, or collapsing time and space. Their acts of storytelling run counter to dominant narratives, weaving new meanings, opening up critiques, and making space for the multivalence of individual experience.

BAM/PFA - BAM Exhibitions