Dot Tuer discusses Vera Frenkel’s video installation work in relation to its use of spoken narrative in video, memory, exile, and its critical embrace of Modernist tropes. "In contrast to airports across North America, where CNN has installed special monitors in waiting rooms so that all those in transit will have the same access to the same information, Frenkel offers the traveler an alternative to this bleak homogeneity...storytelling becomes a collaboration of viewer and artist, a reterritorialization of the self within the social".