Creating knowledge and questioning truth

It is a fact that we are living profoundly according to our values and codes that our societies are built upon, and most of us are building our own truth. However, one may ask, where the truth ends, the post-truth begins or vice versa and how we are influenced by it. No doubt those kinds of questions in the post-truth era are blurry and can change directions just like our thoughts and our need for truthiness, but there is a reality in each question that leads us to answers, and maybe the post-truth era tells us all we need to do is to ask the right questions. In his latest exhibition at Akbank Sanat, curator Marcus Graf shows the viewers how he asked the right questions in contemporary art in the post-truth era.

The exhibition titled, "Regular Insanity," takes on the concept of knowledge and information through all kinds of media channels within the post-truth concept, to open a new dimension in questioning new ways, as it brings together artists such as Ana Adamovic, Anna Fausshauer, Basim Magdy, Buğra Erol, Fischli and Weiss, Joseph Beuys, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Komet, Lars Breuer, Nasan Tur, Özlem Günyol - Mustafa Kunt, Marcus Popp (Oval), Robert Barta, Rudolf Reiber, Serhat Kiraz, Thomas Baldischwyler and Yeşim Uzunöz.

According to Graf, art is a field for knowledge production. "Of course, its processes, methods, conclusions differ from the traditional fields of science, engineering, religion and social sciences. It can produce individualistic, subjective, contradictory and illogical and irrational, even absurd, forms of knowledge in order to question our common forms of knowledge as well as produce alternative forms of knowledge," he said, adding that instead of giving absolute answers it makes the spectator raise questions.

In "Regular...