How We Tell Stories to Children
2015
Sable Elyse Smith
American, born 1986
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Sable Elyse Smith’s work seeks to make visible the interior and often unseen spaces and experiences of mass incarceration in the United States. How We Tell Stories to Children incorporates audio of the artist reading aloud, blurry found footage, and audio and video recordings made by the artist’s father while incarcerated, interweaving a personal, tender narrative of connection despite enforced distance. Its fleeting, fractured approach—where so much seems to happen off-screen—evokes the systematized silencing and erasure of the more than two million individuals incarcerated in the United States.
- Maker/Artist
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Classification
- Media
- Formatted Medium
- Video, color, sound, 5 minutes 51 seconds
- Dimensions
- N/A
- Departments
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
- Accession Number
- 2019.37
- Credit Line
- Gift of Isaac Joseph
- Exhibitions
- Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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