Necromania

Hello all,

Welcome to Necromania! This VLOG will follow a selection artists from this year’s incarnation of CAFKA. The focus of our commentary will be on how these pieces confront our conceptions of our own mortality.

This year’s theme is Veracity. The Oxford English dictionary defines Veracity in a number of ways, but for our purposes, we will define veracity as:

“The quality or character in persons of speaking or stating the truth; habitual observance of the truth; truthfulness, veraciousness.”

The aspect of Veracity which we will examine in our selected pieces is that of the inevitability of our own death. Whether at the personal, societal or universal level, all reflections of truth must incorporate the truth of our finitude.

The following are a few preliminary photos from around town. Enjoy!