Photo of collection object How We Tell Stories to Children
Sable Elyse Smith. How We Tell Stories to Children, 2015. Video, color, sound, 5 minutes 51 seconds, N/A. Gift of Isaac Joseph, 2019.37. © Sable Elyse Smith © artist or artist's estate.

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
Accession Number
2019.37
Credit Line
Gift of Isaac Joseph
Rights Statement
© artist or artist's estate
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