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More Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness presents work by some of today's most accomplished and promising international artists who are examining our shifting experience of reality. Over the past century, during a period of unprecedented technological change and global social upheaval, once-established beliefs, or "truths" have been cast into doubt, changing and shaping our understanding and experience of reality. Through diverse media and in unexpected ways, this exhibition explores the impact and role of deception, play, memory, power, simulation, and new technologies on art and everyday life.

The exhibition proposes that we now live in an "Age of Truthiness," time when our understanding of the truth is no longer bound to anything tangible, provable, or factual.

In 2005, Stephen Colbert, comedian and host of the popular satirical news program, "The Colbert Report," coined the word "truthiness" and brought it to the forefront of the English lexicon. Defined by the American Dialect Society as "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true," the notion of "truthiness" quickly caught hold and it became Merriam-Webster's word of the year in 2006. By presenting art that reveals, confronts, and questions the nature of reality in an age when the relationships between truth and fiction have never been less definitive, More Real? explores our constantly changing shared sense of what is real.

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Artists

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world. From architecture ...
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Seung Woo Back

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Zoe Beloff

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Cao Fei

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Thomas Demand

Born in Munich in 1964, Thomas Demand lives and works in Berlin. Demand studied art the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and received an MFA from G...
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Leandro Erlich

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Omer Fast

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John Gerrard

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Johan Grimonprez

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Iris Häussler

Iris Häussler’s immersive installations revolve around fictitious stories. Detailed biographies of invented characters build a basis from which she cr...
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Jonn Herschend

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Pierre Huyghe

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An-My Lê

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Joel Lederer

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Sharon Lockhart

Movies are an alternate reality, a different point of view from which to focus on the world. Each photograph or still taken by Lockhart is the attempt...
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

Working across multiple disciplines, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle creates projects that address urgent issues of our time. For
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Eva and Franco Mattes

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Jonathan Monk

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Vik Muniz

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Trevor Paglen

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Dario Robleto

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Eve Sussman/ Rufus Corporation

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Mary Temple

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Yes Men

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Greg Lynn

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Curators

Elizabeth Armstrong

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