PostTRUTH

29 Sep-22 Oct 2022

PV 28 Sep 2022, 6-8pm

Overview

Angela Lizon - Caroline Jane Harris - Carolyn Bunt - Chris Shaw Hughes - Cristina Reyes - Kaz - Stephen Bell

For many of us the current obsession with truth has come from the political upheaval recently gripping the country.

It is however, one of the most complicated concepts in the history of philosophy, concerning itself with claims of accuracy and authenticity. Truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarations. The most prominent theory of it is where words correspond to an accepted or mutually available reality which is to be examined and confirmed, or where truth is not about one claim but a series of statements that cohere about the world.

Slowly the world is confronted with more and more ways of changing realities visually, physically and even in a sensory way through perceptual tricks and mimicry. How do we know what to believe? Or does it really matter? Are we really happy to suspend our disbelief? Who really knows the truth? Is it important? Are we now in a state of postTRUTH? In his 1873 essay Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense, Nietzsche holds that humans create truth about the world through their use of metaphor, myth, and poetry. We are continuing to create truth in 2022 but have now moved on to achieve it in a more physical sense as well.  

PostROOM has attempted to explore PostTRUTH in an assortment of ways without being uniform or monotonous through material, technique, illusion, statement and oblique criticism. The exhibition features painting, 2D hand cut digital photo, photography using photoshop and etched glass, carbon drawing, sculptural object, video and installation.