Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World

International artists will explore new ways of depicting reality with photographs and video-art which will reveal just how much, or how little, truth there is in what is seen and what is depicted.

The show will focus on the meaning of the term "reality" in the context of contemporary art as it explores the different ways of representing the world and the ambiguity that lies between the real and the verisimilar, the concrete and the apparent, the present and the past.

Various disciplines have already signalled a paradigm shift when they contend that the "real world" does not exist as an independent category, merely as a projection or a construction by the individual.

Actions and beliefs are then based on this "reality."

Photography and video art may not only record reality, they may, at the same time, falsify it.

Today, with the spreading popularity of digital technology and the widespread dissemination of images through the mass media and the internet, this ambiguity has if anything increased, pushing the conflict between appearance and reality to its limits and demanding that the spectator play an active role in defining what he or she is seeing as real.