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A Story Within a Story, Within a Story, Within a Story...
Published 2025-12-15
Keywords
- history,
- opacity,
- relation,
- work in motion,
- inclusion and omission
Copyright (c) 2025 Elvira Dyangani; Bernarda Troccoli

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How to Cite
Dyangani , D. . (2025). A Story Within a Story, Within a Story, Within a Story... (B. Troccoli, Trans.). Post(s), 12, 216-227. https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v12i1.4111
Abstract
The original version of this essay, "A Story Within a Story, Within a Story, Within a Story...", was published in 2015 By Art & Theory Publishing, in the catalogue of the eighth edition of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose.
We are deeply grateful to the author and to the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, which commissioned the essay, for allowing us to translate this work.
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