Stranger Than Fiction by Joan Fontcuberta
"...The works inflate truth to its bursting point, where the artist sets up a tug-of-war between our beliefs and scepticism.... it also compels us to suspend our belief and join him on his remarkable journeys into his fictional worlds." It is ironically funny that half way through the exhibition, I switched my point of view from 90% doubting into 50% believing in his humorous 'lies'. Perhaps I rather believe in unreasonable(?) wonders in the world than blocking all kinds of possibilities. After all what I do most of the time is to 'make believe'. In photography, seeing in never believing, that is the core message Joan wanted to convey.
Recently, I have been thinking about how does 'mind' work, this is due to the influence of Eckhart Tolle, the author of Practicing the Power of Now. To understand his theory(again, not a very suitable choice of word), one must lift its mind off the control centre of the body and soul... because mind is a self-projected illusion, which does not represent your very own being. What one feels/ thinks/ sees does not always reflect ourselves truthfully, whether it is an in-bound communication among oneself or an out-bound one to the others. Especially under the illusion of 'time' that mind likes to play tricks, which causes one to constantly stuck in the past or future, but present. In other words, we lock ourselves into the prison and throw the key away. Perhaps what is stranger than fiction is when one is blessed to live in the moment but resist to do so.
