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Expecting Rain. Reading The Nam

Fiona Banner, The Nam: Non-Fiction, 1997. Detail. Installation, 1000 page paperback book and silk screened posters. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery.
All of this is fiction, and none of this is made up; it is all described, transcribed from what is heard and seen…It’s like somebody’s scanning it, looking for something. All of this is fiction, and none of this is made up; it is all described, transcribed from what is heard and seen. Drawing narrative; drawing telling. The story survives but the author takes on no narrative responsibility.