Simulacrum
In the order of the original and copy, the factual and fictive, the notion of simulacra appears as a troubling force. Replacing the foundations of truth and origin, the simulacra forces us to see outside of what is visible or what is stated. In the absence of representational certainty, we inhabit a world of simulacra鈥攁n order where the binaried relationship between presence and absence is destabilised, and what is present becomes a memorial for that which is lost. Exploring the philosophy of simulacrum in the writings of Baudrillard and Deleuze, the exhibition disturbs meanings of the truth and reality through the prism of absence鈥攄isappearances, departures, vanishings and erasures. These absences, manifest as spectres, silences and hauntings, reveal a fissure at the very core of truth or its indexical reproduction.
Moving through disquietude and desolation of rooms and landscapes, into the still corners of the body and mirrored selves, the residues of touch and contact borne by objects, Simulacrum probes deeper into the fulcrum of reality, or the attempt to keep things whole. It presents works by artists who seek the instance, outside of linear time, where the authority of the 鈥榬eal鈥� begins to dissolve in the ether of perception, and a veil is lifted within.
In the order of the original and copy, the factual and fictive, the notion of simulacra appears as a troubling force. Replacing the foundations of truth and origin, the simulacra forces us to see outside of what is visible or what is stated. In the absence of representational certainty, we inhabit a world of simulacra鈥攁n order where the binaried relationship between presence and absence is destabilised, and what is present becomes a memorial for that which is lost. Exploring the philosophy of simulacrum in the writings of Baudrillard and Deleuze, the exhibition disturbs meanings of the truth and reality through the prism of absence鈥攄isappearances, departures, vanishings and erasures. These absences, manifest as spectres, silences and hauntings, reveal a fissure at the very core of truth or its indexical reproduction.
Moving through disquietude and desolation of rooms and landscapes, into the still corners of the body and mirrored selves, the residues of touch and contact borne by objects, Simulacrum probes deeper into the fulcrum of reality, or the attempt to keep things whole. It presents works by artists who seek the instance, outside of linear time, where the authority of the 鈥榬eal鈥� begins to dissolve in the ether of perception, and a veil is lifted within.
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