AMY FRIEND
ASSORTED BOXES OF ORDINARY LIFE
Curated by Marcie Bronson
January 29 to May 1, 2016
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 28, 7 pm
HOT TALK
Thursday, February 25, 7 pm
Inspired by a small found archive of personal photographs, documents, and objects, Amy Friend presents a new body of photo-based work that considers how identity comprises both fact and fiction. Composing images by overlaying fragments of the archive with anonymous secondhand photographs and her own original photographs, she infers narratives from the minimal details the remnants provide. Ambiguous and morphing, these composite images at once explore and confuse the history they reference, and Friend uses this to reflect how we understand and interpret the people around us. When anomalous threads appear and begin to unravel the fabric of stories we think we know, we call into question what is accepted as truth. So little can say so much, and even greater is the unexplored mystery of the spaces between what is known.