Could fiction, which stand in the middle of every field of art, show the viewer that real life is also a kind of fiction, and that art is actually a long story to discover? Constructed works, exhibitions tell where the story can begin and whisper that it is endless…
In contemporary art, we see more and more fictionalized exhibitions, works based on real concepts based on fiction and imagination, and their stories have begun to take a deep place in our lives.
Turning a fictionalized reality into a story and reaching the audience through the eyes of the artist or the perspective of the curator is not a new trend, but it is a practice we see more and more frequently. On the other hand, where a fictional work or a fictionalized story (and exhibition) begins and ends will reveal itself over time. How accurately these works or exhibitions express themselves to the audience, and the thoughts, reactions and conclusions that we have as visitors when we encounter fictional works, do not all these become real?
From these perspectives, fiction actually shows not a story that is not true, but that everything in every aspect of our lives is fictional and that these are real. The word fiction mentioned in literary works was used for the first time by Samuel Johnson, one of the important writers of the Age of Enlightenment. In one of his articles, Johnson explains how important the word fiction has in English language and literature. According to Johnson, this is such a valuable and important field that; deepens the capacity of people to understand and communicate with each other. Because, fiction literature-fiction work, every field where fiction and fiction exist are affected by daily life, emotions and features that exist only in humans. * (Sukla, 2015:16). Thus, it expresses the real, not the unreal.
The Deceptive Nature of Language
Today, we use fiction or fiction to express and make sense of the unreal. In this case, can we say that we are in the middle of the deceptive nature of language? Language exists in an abstract field beyond visuality, sometimes alone, under the influence of everything. This existence sometimes produces such different meanings that it is impossible for every moment that we question or, more simply, not to turn into stories in our minds through language. For this reason, in the middle of our lives, we are sometimes left alone with “meaning shifts”.
