real fiction(1) (2) : 6.25 x 8.75"; 20 pages. Tri-fold structure. In cream paper wraps. Offset lithography. Digital printing.Housed in cloth covered flat tray box. Emily Artinian: "Based on the stories of Portuguese writer José Saramago, real fiction is a record of the artist's search for traces of the 'real' in the author's fictional universe. "The images are of places and people in Lisbon, taken over a three day period, that Emily believes Saramago may have been fictionalizing, or at least had in mind whilst writing. "The notes in the back section of the book describe the process of the search and make up a document of one reader's 'real' travels into a 'fictional' space. "The book makes frequent use of the mechanism of the footnote, linking the images in section 1 with the notes in section 2, thus highlighting the contingent nature of both 'factual' and 'fictional' knowledge. "Finally, the book is an exploration of the reception of Saramago in translation in the English-speaking world, querying the accuracy of the reality we construct as foreign readers of a narrative." |
