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Institute for Contemporary Art

Richmond, Virginia

Visitors are invited to carefully walk through the corridor formed by To the Various Futures (Not to All), two hand-woven panels, produced by Donnelly through a painstaking process. In the first stage, her weavings contain legible text taken from Jorge Luis Borges’s 1941 short story ‘The Garden of Forking Paths,’ in which notions of overlapping time, fate, and decision-making form labyrinthine narratives. Then by unraveling and reweaving each panel, Donnelly creates a hazy, maze-like script. Through these material processes, the loom and the hand become extensions of Borges’s serpentine narrative.

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