I tried to distill the motivation I have for The Boy with Half a Pinky, and arrived at these three paragraphs:
A project to measure the load-carrying capacity of text, an attempt at outright lying without speaking falsely and an illustration of automatic, biological narrative.
How far can one stretch the imagination to accomodate for ones beliefs in the face of contradictory (or inconclusive) evidence, and what is the quality of succesful propaganda (both the quality of the propaganda and the quality of our reaction to it, as well as the mechanisms that bridge the gap between what is presented and our internalisation of a message)?
Where exactly are you lost in the transition between presupposed understanding (unselfreflecting knowledge) and the rest of the world?
The galleries webpage is located here, where you’ll find more info about the exhibition.