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Discovered from 27th June - 3rd July

DISCOVERED FROM 27th JUNE - 3rd JULY 2013


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ARTIST PROFILES 1. DAVID JOSEPH CRIBBIN 1. What is your favourite work of art? That's a difficult question. It all depends on what mood I'm in. There are works I'll love one day, and dismiss the next. However, there are certain kinds of works that interest me all the time. I'm thinking of narrative works . By that I don't mean conventional narrative genres, like novels or films, I mean works that employ a narrative device, or works where some kind of narrative device is central to the work. An example would be someone like Sophie Calle. A lot is made of the influence of the Oulipo movement on her work, but that's irrelevant to me, I like the way she uses narrative to evoke questions about identity, which are relevant to the ways we live today. If I was just to pick one work, I suppose I'd pick "Exquisite Pain", but if you asked tomorrow I'd probably pick something else. Sophie Calle - Exquisite Pain 2. W...