Since 1965, Nancy Wilson-Pajic uses narrative forms to make text-based, content-oriented artworks. Pioneer of the installation form, she played an important role in the avant-garde of the 1970s with text installations and narrative works.
Began working in Paris in 1978, where she created a unique image system based on photographic pigment emulsions, creating narrative sequences of evocative images. Since being recognized as a precursor of the artists’ photography movement, three major museum retrospectives have been devoted to her work.
“My work is concerned with the processes by which information accumulates and is transformed: by juxtaposition with other information, by memory, and by the individual’s order of priorities. I have used sound recordings and written text, video and film, photographs, drawings and computer print-outs — in installations, in book form and, more rarely, on the wall — to create mental spaces within which creative reflection may take place.”
Nancy Wilson-Pajic
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