Description

• In eighteenth-century theater, Denis Diderot’s Fourth Wall stood for the imaginary partition between the spaces of the stage and the auditorium, between the worlds of the imagination and reality. Its purpose was to facilitate aesthetic experience of the fictitious within the real.today, the questioning of the "constructed" nature of reality is associated with the aim of deeply exploring (media) production of endless new models for reality and life. The catalog seeks an encounter with the mechanisms of illusion, using the Fourth Wall as an analytical tool to expose the many layers of a near impenetrable reality. To this end, the artists scrutinize micropolitical communities, transform social fields into theatrical scenarios, and dissect the structures of everyday life using the rhetoric of theater and film. documentary, (auto)biographical, and fictious materials form the basis for this critical examination of the current state of the worldwe live in—creating the potential for a rethinking of emancipatory action.