"true lies" at museum franz gertsch

Accademia 1000, 2003, 180 x 225 cm, c-print/diasec, private collection

"True Lies. Lies and Other Truths in Contemporary Photography"

Exhibition at Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (CH)
2004/01/18 - 2004/03/28

Two works of larger format by Lois Renner are part of the show on fiction in photography at Franz Gertsch Museum in Switzerland. Other artists: Martin Bürger, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Filipa César, Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Slawomir Elsner, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Taryn Simon, Alexander Timtschenko, Yann Toma, Egbert Trogemann, Veronika Veit.

Commentary of the museum:

"The exhibition true lies. lies and other truths in contemporary photography presents 13 actual artistic positions who manipulate the photographic images and their claim to truth, thereby questioning our perception of truth and reality in various ways. While the results may seem similarly irritating, the strategies of artistic lies differ a lot.

Lies are propagated in differing forms and with various means: telling fake stories (Sophie Calle, Yann Toma), placing true stories in the wrong context (Slawomir Elsner), generating reality in the computer (Wolfgang Ellenrieder), presenting it as a model on a smaller scale (Lois Renner), or in full scale - but in the wrong place (Maurizio Cattelan).

Finally, also the lies of our everyday reality are subject of the works: hotels in Las Vegas (Alexander Timtschenko), game shows and their stage scenery on television (Egbert Trogemann) or innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit (Taryn Simon).

In all the stories the artists tell us there is but one truth: the truth of the created image. It forces the beholder to hone his or her critical attention towards a world of images which has become more and more complex."

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