I became very interested in the historical event of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat during the French revolution. I treated this assassination as a news event and related it to the typical forms of a news report.
I took five different artists, myself included, and used their individual drawing styles to depict this historic event. Based on my research into the artists’ drawing styles and critical comments on their paintings, I made five installations borrowing their drawing styles.
It was also a way to add my own interpretations to each artwork and discuss multiple ideas pertaining to truth and interpretation. I used unconventional binding methods to make five bouquet-like newspaper sculptures that evoked the idea of the death of the truth and the existence of multiple layers of the truth.
I then drew a parallel between a funeral event and the death of the truth, and also between the newspaper as a container of news reports and a coffin. I then returned to the traditional form of newspaper and tried to combine all of these different interpretations into one publication and discuss the co-existence of multiple truths and interpretations.
