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Magenta Plains is pleased to present The Garden of Forking Paths, an exhibition organized by Adam Marnie. Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges's 1941 short story of the same name, in which time and space are conceived of as unfixed, overlapping, and multiple, this exhibition presents works that weave together personal, familial, historical, and cultural narratives as well as geographic locations. Often rooted in photography, even when not employing the medium itself, the works both traffic in and trouble a belief in photography's evidentiary status. Each work functions as a portal to another …