Eddie de Goër

The truth

Interactive installation

Table, engraved chairs, giveaway pens, papers, double compartment box with shredder

2023

The truth, which could appear as first glance as an innocuous domestic table staging, invites the visitors to sit and engage with the many questions disseminated on chairs, pens, and papers, all revolving around one problematic: under which circumstances does not telling the truth becomes okay, ethical, or otherwise acceptable? After this, they are given a choice: keep their answer to themselves by shredding them, or leave it for others to read. The pens, as giveaway objects, allow those questions to further circulate — as a reminder, a haunting, or a piece of defiance to carry with oneself and sign paperwork with?

The truth, The whole truth, And nothing but the truth is a series of three works, engaging with experiences of navigating the truth regarding one’s own reality and biography, when being truthful about oneself is impossible, dangerous, unrealistic or simply incomprehensible for others.

image credits Franziska von den Driesch (1, 2, 4), Eddie de Goër (3, 5)
A table is standing in front of white and yellow temporary walls, with papers and pens on the desk. On the background four mirrors are arranged over three chairs. On the front there is a paper shredder mounted onto a wooden box. A person is sitting at the desk and writing on the paper Papers commented by the visitors are lying in a chaotic pile on the desk. On one of the pens one can read, A chair with the seat engraved with the words, Close-up of the box, showing one compartment with the shredder and shreds of paper visible underneat, and the other compartment with papers piled up, with a drawing on the top one