黑料不打烊

Through this sentence uttered at the beginning of the film Matrix, heavily influenced by Jean Baudrillard鈥檚 thought 鈥� 鈥淭he simulacrum is true鈥� 鈥�, Morpheus invites Neo to become aware of the reality of a world he had only detected so far the faked representation, created from scratch by the Matrix.

Twenty years after this film was released, when dissemination of information is currently about to implode under pressure from digital data invading out of control our daily life, the question of real, reality and their representation stands out as one of the major issues of our contemporary lives.

The world seems to appear only in the form of fierce news fighting through artificial, spectacular, or excluding narratives, providing the crowds they intend to conquer with diverted, distorted, and faked views of reality. Many artists from the turn of the century have put into perspective the tension between real, its spectacular or distorted representation and its transposition into imaginary events.

By pervading the devices and the narratives at work in the world of mass images (cinema, press, contemporary myths), by creating works whose multiple interpretations invite us to a critical distancing facing the representation of reality as it has been imposed on us or by focusing on the real in its rawest form, the artists鈥� works displayed in this exhibition invite us with undeniable poetry to question the nature of images we come across, to deconstruct the restrictive representation mechanisms in presence.

How we think about the world and鈥攑erhaps even more importantly鈥攈ow we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore. A thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes. He who has and weaves the story is in charge. (Olga Tokarczuk, The Tender Narrator, 2020).