TO BE AN ANGULAR SOMETHING AS A ROUND NOTHING

On Authenticity

Authenticity is a dynamic process of endless becoming in an innately changing environment, rather than a fixed state of being. We do not wish to consider authenticity and inauthenticity as mutually exclusive states, but rather as mutually dependent concepts. „Authenticity“ as a concept, is a human construct, as such it has no reality independent of minds.

Is authenticity possible, or even desirable? Is there a distinction between „true“ authenticity and a mere display of authenticity? Can authenticity be, publicized, declared, marketed, or exchanged as some sort of commodity or must it be unpretentious and understated?

From the testimonial image to the kitchen space, artists Anastasiia Batishcheva, Ilinca Fechete, Simon Hartl, Shueh Oberschelp, Stephanie Rössing, Igor Vrdoljak aka Unruh, Magdalena Welz, Shudi (Mimi) Yan, Sianza Zink and Natalie Zohner, masterfully dissect the un-truth of the photographic image further collectively exhibiting in to be an angular something as a round nothing, at the Kaulbachstr. 1, opening this September 2021.

Ilinca Fechete