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Visual Art"Artworks have neither a beginning nor an end – they hover suspended in the imagination, open to review and interrogation."
Inside Stories traces Ian Carr-Harris’ longstanding examination of how meaning is constructed through language, presenting his 1982 ‘performance’ work in German alongside a new body of work. Though distinct in their source material, these works all investigate how words have the ability to order and produce thought, and how the structures of language guide action.
Inside Stories examines articles that continue from the front page to the interior pages of a newspaper, bringing the reader into contact with realities distinct from their own and outside of the subjects of mass attention. As such, the newspaper is at once a familiar, everyday object, and a repository of the distant and unknown. Inside Stories can also be interpreted as referring to the latent or hidden elements of a narrative which allow the reader’s subjectivity to inform and shape the text. In this way, readers are implicated in the constant renewal and reinvention of stories.