Epistolar Documentation Page



	August 5 - September 3, 2010 58 Gallery 58 Coles Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 www.fifty8.com
	ABOUT: "epistolar" is a new-media project that explores notions of memory and story telling in the creation of a challenging archeology of family and history. Through various narratives extracted from personal letters, found footage, and photographs, the interactive installation intertwines myths and facts, stories and histories, visuals and text to re-create an account about life during and after the dictatorial regimes in Latin America. DESCRIPTION & FUNCTIONALITY : The installation consists of three identical photo albums. Each album is labeled with a corresponding image of the father and mother of the artist, and the artist himself. The albums contain similar sets of picture reproductions with corresponding barcode tags adjacent to each page. Audiences are invited to open any album, in any order, flip through the pages, and scan the tags to trigger a visual text narrative projected on the screen. As visitors spend some time with the piece, they realize that there are three narratives, three different points of view, that compliment, add, and sometimes contradict one another based on the story behind the picture. Note: For the exhibition at Peter Fingensten Gallery, the project was accompanied by val_ID_ation, 2009, and installation using reproduction of the artist's ID cards issued by various organizations and institutions where he had worked or had some past afiliation. DOCUMENTATION: Peter Fingesten Gallery 58 Gallery
	"epistolar" was produced while in residency at The Dyson College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Fine Arts at Pace University, NYC.
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