"I want my pictures to have a certain narrative – an ambiguous narrative, I don't want to be specific," he says.
Similarly, Marcellus Armstrong's video work, An Ambiguous Narrative of Overdramatic Reenactments, explores the ways dominant narratives often led to misrepresentation and erasure.
Its 98 speakers — placed on stands, chairs and walls throughout the 55,000-square-foot hall — will alternate enveloping aural effects with ambiguous narratives.
In the show's second half Bacon paints from his life, his imagination or somewhere in between, uncoiling new, ambiguous narratives that were often enhanced by the expansiveness of the triptych format.
Chronology is warped, important details are changed, composite characters are invented, sprawling, ambiguous narratives are shoehorned into the sacrosanct three-act structure -- and each of these departures will give someone cause to cavil.
In addition "I M U U R 2" is consistent with Mr. Vo's penchant for assembling objects, images and documents to create ambiguous narratives about the fluidity of cultural identity and history and the ways these larger currents affect individual lives.
1975 Vietnam Danh Vo, (born 1975, Ba Ria, Vietnam), Vietnamese-born Danish artist whose experiences shaped by distance and displacement as well as by his sexual orientation inspired him to collect and reconfigure cultural fragments into ambiguous narratives that bore witness to his fluid identity in a changing world.
Whether or not the viewer knows it, the Middle Passage exists in "Two Trees," along with Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" and the prison island of Carrera, just as full-length male bathers by Cézanne and Marsden Hartley are present in Doig's "Red Man"—not visibly, but through ambiguous narratives that are drenched in art history and in a sense of where we are in the world right now.
Building on this approach, a mixed-method design was used to investigate character development in two morally ambiguous narratives.
In each, Mr. Dion uses a kind of stage-set installation to spin out an ambiguous moral narrative.
This tension between fear and complicity drives many of the questions of Karl Marx City, which aims to challenge our tendency towards good-versus-evil stories and put forth a more ambiguous, difficult narrative.
