Diane Samuels: It’s a Long Story

Diane Samuels: It’s a Long Story opens in the ICA’s main gallery. Samuels is an internationally recognized visual artist who uses other people’s words and her own handwriting as her literal and figurative raw material. The centerpiece of this exhibition is Moby-Dick, a monumental work featuring a hand-transcription of Herman Melville’s famous novel on remnants of painted and collaged archival paper. Each page of the book is represented by a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with “Call me Ishmael” at the top of the work, which measures 47 feet long by 8 feet wide.