Beyond Words: Constructing Visual Narratives

With Alla Abdunabi
Ages 18+
In English
 

Delve into the art of storytelling through images, objects and iconography. Examine how narratives can be built directly from visual material in a process involving both selection and omission. Guiding you in this study will be artistic and museological methodologies, theories of image migration and historical fiction.

This seminar interrogates image-based research as a process of uncovering, assembling and, at times, producing forms of truth. Through lectures and close readings of images, you will trace how meaning shifts across contexts and assess existing models of visual narrative construction. Then you will apply these models in practice, considering how fiction operates as a critical tool for engaging with truth, memory, and institutional storytelling.

4–5 July 2026

3:00 pm–6:00 pm

Photography Gallery

Image:

Alla Abdunabi's Studio, 2026

Image Courtesy of the Artist