Catharine Clark Gallery is hosting a group exhibition titled “We Tell Ourselves Stories...In Order To Live” at its San Francisco venue.Featuring works by Sophie Calle, Leonora Carrington, Lenka Clayton, Edgar Martins, Patrick Staff, Stephanie Syjuco, and Katherine Vetne “We Tell Ourselves Stories...In Order To Live” takes the first sentence of Joan Didion’s iconic essay, “The White Album” (1979), as a proposition and point of departure for examining how narrative impacts our collective relationship to memory, family histories, and forms of social organization.The gallery says, “Didion’s essay ‘The White Album’ traces how the 1969 Manson family murders in Los Angeles brought the utopianism of the 1960s counterculture movement to an abrupt and horrific end.” In trying to make sense of a cultural landscape that seemed incomprehensibly fractured through violence and discord, Didion writes, “we interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”In these works, the narrative offers a critical tool for self-representation in this cultural moment where facts are increasingly contested, and where vulnerable populations continue to be targeted through vitriol and conjecture. The artists in “We Tell Ourselves Stories...In Order to Live” challenge ordering systems that we collectively take as a given – language, gender, citizenship – and encourage us to imagine more expansive possibilities for how people present themselves to the world.The exhibition will be on view from June 21 through September 1, 2018, at Catharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.For details, visit: https://cclarkgallery.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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