%0 Journal Article
%T European Locations Dreamed with a Limited Imagination
%A Samantha Donnelly
%J Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
%D 2011
%I Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
%X : This visual essay develops the idea of the artefact¡¯s ability to suggest, imply or initiate a narrative or string of narrative associations.          European Locations Dreamed with a Limited Imagination is a series of images of the same quotidian objects composed differently and photographed from a variety of angles. These common, modern, mass-produced objects range from a reel of cotton and a bull-dog clip to a marble and a gold cup-cake case. Individually these mass produced, cheap objects suggest only ¡®use-value¡¯. Here, however, they become representative of possible locations. This sensibility is steered further by the use of simplistic text; these objects appear as though they are advertisements for European getaways.          This essay continues Donnelly's interest in the use of found objects, especially the mass-produced, to create tableaux. Her work is made in the studio over a period of time, through questioning, re-phrasing and re-working a range of sculptural matter: household wares, imported fashion bargains and second-hand finds. Donnelly¡¯s methods of production give her work a strong sense of time which mirrors conventions found in popular culture ¨C editing, cropping, elimination, montage and narration.   R¨¦sum¨¦: Cet essai visuel interroge la capacit¨¦ de l'objet de sugg¨¦rer, impliquer, ou susciter un r¨¦cit ou une cha ne d'associations narrative. European Locations Dreamed with a Limited Imagination est une s¨¦rie d'images des m¨ºmes objets quotidiens, vus diff¨¦remment et photographi¨¦s de plusieurs points de vue. Ces objets banals, modernes, produits en masse, sont d'une grande diversit¨¦: une pelote de coton, une laisse de chien, une bille, un moule de patisserie, etc. Pris un ¨¤ un, ces objets tout ¨¤ fait "cheap" ne semblent avoir d'autre valeur que leur valeur d'usage. Toutefois, dans la pr¨¦sentat
%K cheap
%K Europe
%K mass-production
%K popular culture
%K use value
%U http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/161