#imrebak

Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present Quid est veritas?, a multi-generational group exhibition exploring the concept of philosophical truth.  Through works by AES+F, Morehshin Allahyari, Imre Bak, crocodilePOWER, Simon Denny, Eva and Franco Mattes, Joseph Kosuth, Olia Lialina, Signe Pierce, Timur Si-Qin and Theo Triantafyllidis, curator Anton Svyatsky scrutinizes the cognitive mechanisms by which humans operate the label of truth.  

The exhibition is on view from 11 July - 21 September 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com

OPENING TIMES Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6pm or by appointment

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Unlike the subjective moral properties (good, bad, etc.), we like to believe that truth is objective, and that it corresponds with the actual state of affairs in the world.  Before the information age, the only source of truth was authority, whether spiritual, scholastic or governing – one and the same for most of human history. Even publicly accessible libraries and archives are mediated by cultural self-selection and oftentimes authority of the state, especially under a totalitarian regime.  With the dawning of the information age came unprecedented access to knowledge, and with that access, doubt has engulfed humanity. It can be said that doubt is the herald of enquiry and thus the harbinger of truth. Without doubt, no progress towards truth can be made. So let us doubt for just a moment the notion of truth itself.  To believe something is ipso facto believing it to be true.  Each work in Quid est veritas? is intended as a provocation to self-examination.  The spectator is invited to doubt their belief system by inquiring into their own process of belief formation.

The exhibition is on view from 11 July - 21 September 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com

OPENING TIMES Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6pm or by appointment

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the conceptual work of Hungarian artist Imre Bak is a study of meaning – the deconstruction of an image demonstrates the fragility of meaning within representation.

The exhibition is on view from 11 July - 21 September 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com

OPENING TIMES Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6pm or by appointment

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