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Rather than organizing the work geographically or chronologically, Fiction moves through images as fragments of memory: intimate, restless and deliberately unstable. 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Drawing from early work to previously unseen material, this book operates as both archive and rupture—where Ackerman’s signature darkness, blur and psychological intensity reach a new threshold. 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