Speaking of narrative(s)....

Two pretty interesting exhibition press releases came across my desk today from E-flux.  Worth a glance, to be sure.

Kelani Abass, Olori Nlado, from the “Calendar” series, 2013. Corrugated cardboard, laminated print & acrylic on canvas, 99 cm x 122 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Kelani Abass
Àsìkò: Evoking Personal Narratives and Collective History
www.ccalagos.org

Huseyin Bahri Alptekin, Self-Heterotopia, Catching Up with Self, 2009. Photo: Peter Cox.

Once Upon a Time… The Collection Now
www.vanabbemuseum.nl

Video/Photo Exhibition in Germany Explores Constructions of Self/Identity

Johanna Reich, Kassandra, 2008. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013. Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt.

Per Speculum Me Video

Frankfurter Kunstverein

www.fkv.de

A press release on e-flux describes the exhibition as bringing together,

"works by nine artists who explore the construction of the self in contemporary video art and photography. Sounding like a long-forgotten magical spell, the Latin title of the exhibition underscores that self-perception and the development of the ego are coupled with the recognition of one’s own image in the mirror.

Closed-circuit installations and self-portraits have always played a central role throughout the 50-year history of video art, as a reflection on the standpoint of the viewer or as an epistemic question of identity. Today, the daily production and dissemination of moving self-portraits have become the norm in everyday life and in social networks. As a result, new questions have emerged for many video artists surrounding the visual constitution of a subject or its counterpart as well as the perception of the self in a moving image. The exhibited art works therefore offer deciphering gazes at the self and its mirror image."

Participating artists: Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Martin Brand, Manuela Kasemir, Sabine Marte, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Barbara Probst, Johanna Reich, Eva Weingärtner and Gilda Weller

Curated by Holger Kube Ventura

The exhibition is part of the B3 Parcours.

Rebecca Norris Webb @ Southeast Museum of Photography

Rebecca Norriw Webb, Badlands

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB
My Dakota

"In 2005, I set out to photograph my home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, coyotes, mule deer, ring-necked pheasants, and prairie dogs than people. It's a landscape dominated by space and silence and solitude, by brutal wind and extreme weather. I was trying to capture a more intimate and personal view of the West. I was trying to capture what all that space feels like to someone who grew up there. A year into the project, however, everything changed. One of my brothers died unexpectedly. For months, one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota. It seemed all I could do was drive through the badlands and prairies and photograph. I began to wonder: Does loss have its own geography?" - Rebecca Norris Webb
  
October 18, 2013 - February 2, 2014
 
Artist Talk, Book Signing and Opening Reception:
Friday, October 18, 6:00-8:00 pm

Southeast Museum of Photography  
1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

Click HERE for more information.