STRU'S BOB
Veritas, the goddess of truth, is mortally wounded.
As contemporary political theorist John Keane asserts: ‘Lying in politics is an ancient art’, one it appears we have never grown out of. Making use of deeply-embedded human narratives to question the nature of veracity in this so called ‘Post-Truth’ global era, Lotz questions whether this provocative label and an increasingly-connected global network has been the impetus that has now made us more aware of this issue?
Using the friction of the disparate images which arise in her work, Lotz grapples with the nature of certainty in the age of social media where disinformation blurs lines and destabilizes democracies.
This yearning to understand the nature of truth, as well as to face down its opposite, provides the conceptual thread of the exhibition. The work explores the post-modernist argument that ‘all truths are partial and a junction of one’s perspective’ and ‘that there are many legitimate ways to understand or represent an event’ – thus the fallacies, dichotomies and absurdities of the contemporary human condition are explored, even exposed.
The body of works excavate and gain traction within the ironies that emerge from our deepest narratives, which prevaricate between good and evil, order and chaos, desire and hate and the beauty and beast within us all, and thus work to reveal the ambivalence of our divided hearts.
Is it the mirror Veritas now holds up to us?
