Virginia Colwell: The generosity in intricacies, on how aesthetics can help us seeing complex (hi)stories

Virginia Colwell’s work examines the space between official and unofficial histories and the poetic ambiguities of truth and fiction in historical narratives. Her drawings, sculptures, and videos reinvestigate pasts of clandestinity, insurgency, corruption, and slavery, through site visits, interviews, research, and requests for declassified documents. TWS: There is a detective-like quality in the minutiae of your work. In it, collage feels like a precision tool for revealing the intermittency of confirmation biases and gaps in historical narratives. Tell us about […] The post Virginia Colwell: The generosity in intricacies, on how aesthetics can help us seeing complex (hi)stories appeared first on The Weird Show.