When looking at the artistic practice of pedro frança and Lucy Stein, this thesis sentence should resonate and open space of thought for this exhibition with the same name, at Jaqueline Martins in Brussels, Belgium. Didion begins with the simple but evocative sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live”. Examining key events and figures of the era-including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the ultimate victory of consumer culture-Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. With her short sentences and distinctive diction, Didion became a model for a whole generation of younger writers and artists, who take up an auto-ethnographic approach in their own work.
In 1979, Joan Didion (1934-2021) published her seminal collection of essays The White Album in which she captures the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s in what is often described by literary scholars as “simplistic” language.
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