Beyond the Truth
What is the correlation between the truth, storytelling and the narratives of history? Can the truth take on visual form? Does truth appear in a different form from untruth? Who is telling the truth? And how do we shape fictions to suit our personal truths?
In this modest exhibition we would like to ask questions about the aesthetics of storytelling in contemporary art and how it is given form by artists and others. The invited artists deal with oral storytelling, the construction of the truth and its visual appearance. The works are connected through the way the truth is open to being constructed, deconstructed or manipulated in our contemporary visual culture. The fact that they come from different contexts, geographies and cultures shows how widespread this phenomenon is in the world.
To say of what is, that it is, or of what is not, that it is not, is true.
Aristotle in Metaphysics (Book 4).
Amir Yatziv – “Hollywood Strings”, 2011
Rabih Mroue – “On Three Posters”, video, 2004
Michael Blum – “The Three Failures”, video-installation, 2006
Etcetera – “from the relative truth to the absolute error”, installation, 2011
Mladen Miljanović – “Do you intend to lie to me”, film, 2011
Katarina Zdjelar – “Act I” and “Act II”, video, 2010
Ibro Hasanović – “Short Story”, film, 2011
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Production: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaExhibition curators: Galit Eilat & Alenka Gregorič Artists: Amir Yatziv, Rabih Mroue, Michael Blum, Etcetera, Mladen Miljanović, Katarina Zdjelar, Ibro HasanovićText: Galit Eilat & Alenka GregoričDesign: Ajdin BašičExhibition installation: Technical services of MGMLThe exhibition was made possible by: City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture
Location
Mestni trg 5
1000 Ljubljana
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Opening hours
Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00
Tickets
Free entry.
City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.
