Living in a post-truth world?

The exhibition form of Earth Not a Globe mixes different media types, and blends pseudo-scientific experiments as DIY sculptures with photographs and videos. To highlight some flat-earthers’ statements, patterns are also sandblasted on the glass frame as they do on their images.

The major problem I encountered with this project is the funny nature of its topic. Of course, to think that the Earth could be flat is a crazy way of thinking for common people. So the goal of the exhibition is to lay down the path to a second lecture level. To help understand that anyone (could) fall(s) into strange rhetoric.

The real-life experiments showcased in the exhibitions are my way of adding didactics in a restrained and sober scenography. They show some kind of scientific evidence and they help the viewer to get access quicker to the flat-earther’s perspective. And there so, to the images next to them.

The goals here are to support the development of the capacity to distinguish truth from post-truth, science from pseudoscience, to face uncertainty, and to restore critical thinking.

Philippe Braquenier is part of »Guest Room: Daniel Boetker-Smith & Tanvi Mishra«.

Check out his Artist Feature “Earth Not a Globe”.