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Liz Albert: Family Fictions

I first became aware of Liz Albert’s project, Family Fictions, through Float Magazine’s The Road Exhibition. I loved the vintage diptych (see above) that perfectly described a family road trip that included a bored teenager with a cigarette. Needless to s

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I first became aware of Liz Albert’s project, Family Fictions, through Float Magazine’s The Road Exhibition. I loved the vintage diptych (see above) that perfectly described a family road trip that included a bored teenager with a cigarette. Needless to say, I was looking forward to seeing her work in Houston. The artistic use of vernacular found family slides comes from her skilled pairing of images. As she states,”There is a subversive pleasure in working with other people’s family memories and manipulating their meaning by changing the context in which they are viewed.” The work allows us to be voyeurs into anonymous lives and find amusement in the juxtapositions of the subjects.

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