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The complex relationship between image and reality has long been one of the most important topics in art. In this exhibition, the National Museum shows works from the last four decades by close to forty prominent artists. Using a variety of approaches, they all address the surfeit of images we see all around us. The visual deluge that supposedly represents our lives, our times, our world. News clips, holiday snaps, flickers from the depths of the internet. A fragmented intermediate world, half illusion, half reality. Excerpts and selections. And in the midst of it all: glimpses of truth. Images with the power to change the world.

These artists' explorations range over a broad spectrum: films, photography, sculpture and painting. Digital images, newspapers and pages ripped from magazines. From Vibeke Tandberg's staged images of herself as a young bride to Hito Steyerl's search for her past as a bondage model, and from Alfredo Jaar's non-photo of Osama Bin Laden's death to Mike Bouchet's throbbing porn fragments.

• Language: Norwegian and English
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 165
• Size: 21.5 x 27.5 cm / 8.46 x 10.82 inches
• Weight: 851 g / 1.87 lbs
• Author: Andrea Kroksnes (Ed.), Sabrina van der Ley (Ed.), Marianne Yvenes (Ed.)
• Published: 2018
• Publisher: The National Museum
• ISBN: 9788281541252