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STORYTELLERS

(Curated by Gea Politi and Sonia Rosso)
In the era of the information, it’s becoming harder and harder to find a story able to embrace a big audience. However, the loss of a grand narrative (or a grand utopia) could be considered an opportunity to privilege individual narration over mass narration.
Following in the steps of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the curators collected five personal art-like contributions. The following two projects were presented for the first time in Prague: Massimilano Buvoli’s multi lightbox is a group of landscapes presented using the language of the Italian furniture design of the ’60s while the true storyteller Matthew Sawyer – who plays and sings in a band called The Ghost – proposed a contemporary archive with the same legacy of the medieval street-singers.
Presenting the series Pilgrimage from Scattered Points, Luke Fowler’s practice is like that of a ‘scientist’ of human memory who distills visual panoramas from a past that is both veiled and recent. With his homage to John Chamberlain (and the legend behind his famous crashed-car sculpture) Jonathan Monk recounts the birth of an American icon with an ironic flavor.
Lastly, Jememy Deller’s Battle of Orgreave is meant to be a sort of visual soundtrack of the section, a masterpiece dedicated to the power of documentation; by recreating an historical event the artist presents History as a fluid phenomenon instead of a static record. The more you narrate the truth the more you realize it is fake.