Sara Bezovšek and Dorijan Šiško:

WHAT IS YOUR TRUTH?

01. 10. — 30. 11. 2021

What Is Your Truth? is a video game by Sara Bezovšek and Dorijan Šiško in which the artists explore the ideas of modern internet society and the stereotypical logic of video games. Through the virtual world the players embark on an information oriented ideological path where he or she reveals his or her unique personality profile by visiting thematic locations and choosing the so called »truths«.

The spatial-conceptual design follows the classic iceberg analogy that concurrently alludes to the obscurity and the cultural-ideological logic of »truths« from which the players can choose. The design is divided into two segments: Light Mode, takes place on the surface, and Dark Mode, takes place underwater; this is also where all the darkest »truths« can be found. The players follow the so called “Yellow Brick Road” (the road to success and wealth), which is actually a reference from the Wizard of Oz, and embark on a virtual path from the tip of the iceberg into the depths of various ideologies and confront them primarily visually. Throughout the path, players are accompanied by méms which serve as a sort of road signs while at the same time further contextualizing locations and »truths«. Centred on the choices and decisions that the player makes on his or her path, a personalised »profile« is being created. Consequently, based on the individual’s acting experience, a personalized »end« is generated for the user which is shaped by the archetypes of various public personalities of the 21st century and is an ironic reflection of today’s society.

The project flirts with the philosophical implications of the existence of various »truths« in the media-social landscape of a post-virtual, post-internet society. Metaphysical relativism, diagnosed by French poststructuralists in the second half of the 20th century, is now established in the practical sphere. But the project in question does not merely toy with this situation, but rather problematizes it: when the players move between individual »truths« and select/accumulate them, he or she also participates in their formation, preservation and dissemination and is thus part of a different, mutually exclusive reality. In Hegel’s sense, the concept of each of the offered ideologies as a federal assumption, paired with other »truths«, is thus »abolished«.

Sara Bezovšek is a visual artist, active in the fields of graphic design, new media, and experimental film. In her work, she collects, stores, and collages the visual references she encounters while browsing online and watching movies and TV series. Through appropriation, she creates new narratives, interested in what people watch and share on social media, how visual material is broadcast on the internet, and how it changes and affects users. In the context of the post-internet paradigm, she thus creates a space where online content and internet references are a consistent and indispensable part of the world we live in.

Dorijan Šiško is a Slovenian graphic designer who also explores other areas of visual art, such as illustration, multimedia, contemporary art and VJ-ing. His primary engagement in design is concerned with speculative, critical and multimedia design. In his works, he explores topics such as digital culture, the Internet, futurism, science fiction, tribalism and popular culture. He was the art editor of the socially critical student magazine Tribuna. He is a co-founder of the cultural association Kombajn and the art director of the art and design collective freštreš, with which he regularly publishes the freštreš maga/zine and exhibits in Slovenia and abroad. He is currently active as a freelancer in his own studio practice and as a creative leader and designer at the Nimaš Izbire collective. He is the recipient of two awards of the Brumen Foundation: for the newspaper Tribuna and for the book Freštreš 10. His work has been exhibited in such institutions as Osmoza, KUD Kibla, Kino Šiška, Slovenian National Museum, Modern Gallery Ljubljana, MGLC, GT22, Jakopič Gallery, Out to See Festival in New York, etc.


Support: Municipality of Maribor
Co-organization: ACE KIBLA, CODE BLUE
The exhibition is part of the Risk Change (2016–2020) project co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and the Ministryz of Public Administration of RS.



  • KIBLA PORTAL, Valvasorjeva 40, Maribor

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