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Gentle Reminder

Zuzanna Czebatul
Jonas Höschl
Ahmet Öğüt

A myth is neither a lie nor an assertion, but it transforms and bends sense into a form, writes Roland Barthes in his essay collection on the pervasiveness of myths in popular culture, until nothing of the content remains. Strangely, and precisely because of this, myths can claim universal validity. Myths have many names. Ideology, fiction, perhaps even fake news. They have an oblique way of being apolitical—and yet, they hold potential for politics, as the works in this show assert.
All three artists in Gentle Reminder deal with different …