The latest issue of 'Mister Motley' deals with ‘Evidence’.
‘Evidence’ is an elusive concept. A fact gains ‘evidence status’ once our brain considers it to be irrefutable, i.e. as being undeniable and negating all other possibilities. However, our brains and our understanding of the world are too limited to be able to label something as being the ‘Absolute Truth’. Indeed our perceptions continuously change and, as time goes by, evidence may be replaced with other new evidence.
Artists often make use of methods that belong to the field of forensic science. It’s not that they want to prove something. Instead their aim is to emphasize the uncertainties of our existence. In other words, they reverse the methods, leaving our imagination to make up its own rules and regulations and the actual truth to temporarily fade into the background.
This Mister Motley is full of evidence, (un)truths and lies.
