L’UNE OU L’AUTRE VERITÉ
With L’une ou l’autre vérité, Urs Lüthi weaves a visual narrative around his legendary series and invites the public to let themselves be carried away by the intimate and universal contradiction of human emotions. The exhibition spans 55 years of creation, from the artist’s very first self-portrait in the midst of an existential crisis in Ibiza in 1969, to his more recent reflections on the constant movement of self-effacement, via the sensual and ironic multiplicity of The Numbergirl Seen Through the Pink Glasses of Desire, his legendary series from 1973.
By playing on the ambiguities of emotions, the body and the image, the artist highlights the complexity of what we, or society, consider to be ‘true’. He states categorically: ‘I don’t believe in objectivity at all; the only filter between the world and me is my personal truth…’
Far from a static, autobiographical self-portrait, Lüthi declares that everything is ephemeral and destined to disappear. He encourages the public to find a form of solace in a world riddled with discomfort.
