By way of their own individual languages and interests the artists flirted with different meanings of fiction: imaginary prose, false beliefs held to be true for expediency’s sake, and sheer fabrication. The art works conjured up an idea of the artist as amateur – adventurer, researcher, poet – delving into, and perhaps uncovering, the convenient falsehoods with which we are surrounded.
The title of the exhibition ‘If you say something, see something’ was taken from a poem by Charles Bernstein and, like this word play, skews the habitual hierarchy of form and content.
The exhibition was curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Guy Ben-Ner.