Of This Tale, I Cannot Guarantee a Single Word

Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word presents the works of 13 international artists who interweave personal stories with historical events to create new myths. Fake and authentic documents, fictive and historic characters, personal and official archives come together to revisit, disrupt and digress from history in an attempt to reassess our experience of the collective narrative.

The narcissistic subjectivity of personal communication forms such as YouTube and blogs has become a pervasive feature of storytelling, spreading into the realm of political rhetoric, where it is designed to persuade rather than inform. In response to the streamlined discourse of the media industry, the artworks in this exhibition use storytelling show more techniques to challenge the very notions of truth and veracity.

Departing from the more evanescent forms of earlier performance practices, the artists in this exhibition articulate their narratives through sculptures, installations and drawings. Several of the artworks on display still bear traces of the artists' presence: the objects they have left behind thus appear as physical manifestations of their performative practice.

Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word is curated by graduating students on the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London show less