This new group exhibition brings together works by some forty artists from different generations. Continuing the research on the construction of the Subject developed in temporary exhibitions since 2005, ‘True Stories’ follows on from the group exhibition ‘Lifelines (an exhibition of legends)’ ” (2019), which explored the porous boundaries between art and autobiography, between reality and fiction. This new instalment continues the idea that everything is fiction, reality being a superimposition, a layering woven from diverse and varied stories, this time focusing less on the back-and-forth effects between art and the world, but offering parallel approaches to realities.
These different artists share a common use of fictional strategies and postures that are nevertheless rooted in attempts to describe the world, tinged with speculative narration and even documentary, among other things. They invent, they tell stories, they imagine. They peel away the layers of appearances to reveal other narratives, to bring out other stories. Telling stories (to oneself): this age-old need for storytelling, to understand, articulate and reflect on the world, resonates particularly strongly in this era of post-truth and other avatars populating the metaverse. Networks are filled with what are symptomatically called: Real, Stories… Everything is definitely stories. True stories… A title that is paradoxical to say the least. What is it?