Our Sincerest Lies delves into our very human tendency to long for realities beyond our tangible reach. It engages with the myths we create in response to the complexities of the social, historical, and cultural contexts within which we exist, while contesting ones that have an enduring stronghold on our perception of reality.

Myths are stories that we, as a civilization, tell ourselves when it becomes increasingly difficult to comprehend the world around us. However, their creation anew or reinterpretations of old ones allow us to envision alternative futures, subvert dominant narratives, or reclaim agency over our experiences. They become modes through which we can postulate alternate ways of experiencing the world.

The five artists in the exhibition address concerns that are imminent in their surroundings. Responding to the uncertainties of our climatic futures, volatile political environments, tightening invisible borders, and oppressive structures, they dream up resistances while inhabiting illusion.

Through their work, fragile ecosystems become metaphors for strength and resilience. They permit derealization from our anthropocentric obsessions with immortality, while revealing the accompanying capitalistic façades. A longing for companionship and warmth sublimates temporal and spatial boundaries. Recollection of syncretic pasts conjures harmonious futures. Poetry gives way to whispers of revolution.
Our Sincerest Lies exists within these interstices, charting the many ways in which we try to conceive of a world that is more desirable than the one we currently inhabit, despite the limitations of our time.

Participating artists:
Rabiya Asim, Poojan Gupta, Dumiduni Illangasinghe, Malik Irtiza, Maya Mima