“It is relatively easy to accept that money is an intersubjective reality. Most people are also happy to acknowledge that ancient Greek gods, evil empires and the values of alien cultures exist only in the imagination. Yet we don’t want to accept that our God, our nation or our values are mere fictions, because these are the things that give meaning to our lives…. If we want to understand the future, we must decipher the fictions that give meaning to the world.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
What are the costs and consequences of allegiance? This We Believe explores the power and evolution of belief systems—religious, political, economic—and how adherence to and rejection of these ideologies has influenced our current global culture of divisiveness and polarization. [...]
Concern for one’s homeland is invoked by Mitch Epstein, Jeremy Dean, Stephanie Syjuco, Dread Scott, and others through works that utilize subversive flag imagery to expand or transform its symbolic and expressive function.
Janurary 2024 - January 2025
21c Museum Hotel Louisville, 700 W Main St, Louisville, KY 40202
