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.