In 1973, Susan Sontag wrote that “it is the camera that sees.” Jennifer Liston Munson’s new work explores the notion that the watchful eye of the camera holds personal narratives not as a memory-keeper but as a foreteller of histories yet to happen.

In 2025, Liston Munson opened a garbage bag of family ektachrome slides slotted to be discarded and sifted through the tiny transparent images to view the intensely colored images from her 1960s and 70s past. Some images were vaguely familiar, some were completely unknown but proved her presence on family vacations in Florida—and in Los Angeles where her family moved in 1973. This re-seeing experience presented complexities of reconstructing an unresolved past that includes the deaths of her sister and brother. This new work juxtaposes large-scale translucent prints suspended in space in which the artist allowed AI to erase figures as it interpreted the image to reveal what the camera has held over time.

Artist Bio

Jennifer Liston Munson is a Boston-based artist whose work is held in many private and corporate collections. Her high-tech low-tech process combines her training as a painter and fiber artist with her interest in electronic imaging, film, and photography. Liston Munson received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Loughborough College of Art and Design in England. She has won many awards, including the 2001 Traveling Scholar award which culminated with a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.