Who owns the truth - about me, about you?

Searching for the truth is a human urge and playing with it is our daily business. Not just on social media we create versions of ourselves, controlling how others perceive us. In times where the influence of the digital world, superficial appearance and subjectiveness grow, the question of what the truth actually is - and who defines it - arises more and more.

Greta Gdańsk’s work focuses on how our individual subjective reality is influenced by our past. The view on ourselves, on others, on the world and how we experience and encounter it are deeply shaped by the first years of our lives: how we are raised by our attachment figures. Our first loves - our parents -, our families and societies - our "tribes" - with their traditions, values, cultural rules and rites. Which truths do those contain and promote? Our deepest truths about ourselves and how others perceive us are rarely congruent. But who owns the truth about us - about me and about you?
In her work Greta Gdańsk is looking at her own story and how it influenced her perception of reality. The paintings, a short story and a multimedia-installation are all inspired by influential aspects of her upbringing: religion, migration and identity conflicts - and the traces they left on her inner world. She explores the (often subconscious) truths about herself as an individual and as a woman. And what shows is that the past with its truths inevitably returns in the future. And that there is more than one truth about me and about you.

Greta Gdańsk’s work is an invitation to the audience to dive into her inner world and to reflect about the influence of their own past.