“I never said I was deep” is the name of a project that deals with notions such as How can we retell History? And how can we manage to live with the official facts in History and ap-ply them to our everyday life and our own notions of them. Some of the basic theoretical arguments were taken from microhistoryworks from his-torians such as Robert Darnton, Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg and Edmundo O’Gorman. Their works seem to decussate while dealing with the notion of inserting “own personal history” in the the big scheme of official History in order to explain it going from peculiar and specific matters (“Matters-of-concern”) to general matters (“Matters-of-fact”), in other words, studying how common people understands the world, how they assemble-disamble their knowledge of the world. These texts, by analyzing how people organizases reality and how it can be expres-sed in their own conduct and how this can articulate new narratives related to historical events they have lived with, heard of or dealed with. The concept of “matters-of-concern” was taken from Latour and sets the tone for the selection of some of the pieces: they don’t mention numbers, quantities, dates nor names: the facts have been switched for phrases that are meant to trigger a new narrative meant to be completed (or not) by the spectator: they start drawing ideas that relate or talk about different “matters of concern” but they are never clear. This tries to start an exercise where we could try to find “visual narratives” in which people can articulate their own relationship to in order to find new settings that can function as a new way of approaching to “new questions”. The Cristopher Wool’s pieces set the pace of the exhibit: The Black Book Paintings were a series of phrases taken from different places, that can look simple minded but are filled with theatricallity; phrases that look simple but they remind you of something familiar: you don’t know where it comes from or where you know it from, giving a sense of acquain-tance, just as History does.
“I never said I was deep” is the name of a project that deals with notions such as How can we retell History? And how can we manage to live with the official facts in History and ap-ply them to our everyday life and our own notions of them. Some of the basic theoretical arguments were taken from microhistoryworks from his-torians such as Robert Darnton, Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg and Edmundo O’Gorman. Their works seem to decussate while dealing with the notion of inserting “own personal history” in the the big scheme of official History in order to explain it going from peculiar and specific matters (“Matters-of-concern”) to general matters (“Matters-of-fact”), in other words, studying how common people understands the world, how they assemble-disamble their knowledge of the world. These texts, by analyzing how people organizases reality and how it can be expres-sed in their own conduct and how this can articulate new narratives related to historical events they have lived with, heard of or dealed with. The concept of “matters-of-concern” was taken from Latour and sets the tone for the selection of some of the pieces: they don’t mention numbers, quantities, dates nor names: the facts have been switched for phrases that are meant to trigger a new narrative meant to be completed (or not) by the spectator: they start drawing ideas that relate or talk about different “matters of concern” but they are never clear. This tries to start an exercise where we could try to find “visual narratives” in which people can articulate their own relationship to in order to find new settings that can function as a new way of approaching to “new questions”. The Cristopher Wool’s pieces set the pace of the exhibit: The Black Book Paintings were a series of phrases taken from different places, that can look simple minded but are filled with theatricallity; phrases that look simple but they remind you of something familiar: you don’t know where it comes from or where you know it from, giving a sense of acquain-tance, just as History does.