Doubt is the Shadow of Truth

Since the production of my series of artworks Cathédrales in 2014, the shadow is a recurrent theme and tool in my work. With this mural painting I would like persons passing in the street as well as persons working in Fabrika to reflect upon the complex reality of perception. What ones experiences as a fact could merely be a mind construction. The phenomenon of hand shadow puppet is a simple and effective metaphore for this experience of a constructed truth. I chose for the mural painting at Fabrika for a XIXth century drawing of a shadow hand puppet by Burshill : “the goose prisonner’.

The title of the work, ‘Doubt is the shadow of truth’*, is written on the wall under the drawing (in Russian). This text illustrates the image and stimulates the thinking of viewers. Is the reality that I am experiencing, the truth?
How can one influence upon the perception of truth?
The shadow becomes a tool to impose its power of projection of a constructed reality. This is the theme of the renowned philosophical text of Plato about the cave. The same shadow also can be a tool to mentally free oneself from a given situation, as a support for imagination and empowerment. It could be the case for the flying bird.

*from the quote from Ph.J.Bailey “Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.” (‘Festus: a Poem’, 1839, p.83)