Global Crises, Local Relationships focuses on artists who use the story form in contemporary art as a means of comprehending and conveying political and social events.
Significantly, unlike their postmodern predecessors, the artists featured in the exhibition neither take the idea of documentary truth as an object of their critique nor do they abandon fact for fabulation.
Rather, they enable individuals — whether themselves, their subjects or their audience — to construct the story of their unique participation in historical processes.