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Catharine Clark Gallery presents "We Tell Ourselves Stories…In Order to Live," an exhibition of works across media by Sophie Calle, Leonora Carrington, Lenka Clayton, Edgar Martins, Patrick Staff, Stephanie Syjuco, and Katherine Vetne. On view June 21 – September 1, 2018, "We Tell Ourselves Stories…In Order to Live" takes the first sentence of Joan Didion’s iconic essay, “The White Album” (1979), as a proposition and point of departure for examining how narrative impacts our collective relationship to memory, family histories, and forms of social organization.

Didion’s …