GALLERY 1 : ‘PreTEXT’ GROUP SHOW Jun 18 – Jul 5 2008
‘PreTEXT’ is a pretense, an intended fallacy that masks a reality. Originating from the latin word praetextum: to disguise, and praetexere: to weave in front of, the exhibition questions how much of our culture is a strategy intended to conceal a truth.
In exploring this use of deception, the works uncover the notion of pretext through the appropriation of several mediums from advertising and photographic allegories to sound, sculpture and text based works.
