Absolute Approximation

Absolute Approximation, 48h Neukölln Exhibition, Magdalenenkirche Rixdorf Berlin

The prevailing understanding of truth today is nothing other than a derivative concept of correctness. We use the terms right and true, wrong and untrue almost synonymously. Truth appears as a falsifiable correspondence of a statement with factual reality. Yet, as it often seems to us, correct facts frequently appear to be mutually in- compatible. Truth is more than the totality of individual correct facts. It is emergent. Everything that is "unconcealed" is true; thus what is right is true, but not everything true is right. Truth is "unconcealment" (alētheia), i.e. the revealing or making visible of being.

Art is a way of "unconcealment" in that it opens the view of being, allowing what was previously hidden to become visible: The artist disrupts habitual ways of seeing, creates new perspectives and connections, and thus enables us to experience reality in a way that goes beyond mere correctness. By stripping the familiar of its self-evidence, we can elicit the "unconcealment" of being and evoke that moment of truth in which something suddenly appears in its true essence.


Artists
Aaron Koblin
Maria Mavropoulou
Damjanski
Sebastian Schmieg
Dawoon Park

Curators
Erik Anton Reinhardt
Fang Tsai
Tim Kunt