St Matthias' Graveyard

Church on the hill...

Later in the evening…

Veronica: I took a walk past St Matthias Church up on the hill earlier this evening.
Rozy: At night? That place is eerie after dark.
Veronica: I know, but I needed some exercise. Anyway, I saw that one of the graves had been opened.
Rozy: Opened? Like, dug up?
Veronica: Yes, the earth was disturbed, and the stone was slightly ajar. It was so unsettling.
Rozy: Creepy. Was anyone around?
Veronica: Well, that’s the thing. Suddenly, I felt like someone was watching me. I looked up and saw the vicar staring at me from a window. I broke into a sweat. And a trot.
Rozy: I can understand. Any ideas?
Veronica: Maybe the vicar was performing some kind of secret ritual. Like a séance. Or hiding something in the grave. 
Rozy: Disturbing thought. What could he be hiding?
Veronica: And what if the vicar was trying to raise the dead? I know it sounds crazy, but his behavior was so strange.
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Voice-over
A reportable incident? Or could there be a perfectly reasonable explanation? The problem is to see reality as it is.

Challenging reality: Leandro Erlich

The ghosts are us...

At the exhibition…

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Jorge: In school? Hmm. Our images projected into a deserted classroom. Nothing is what it seems, it would seem.

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Jean-Paul: Smokey mirrors. We know it is an image.

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A virtual boat ride?

Jorge: But he is using this as a catalyst to ask the question, “Is there more than one reality?”

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Jean-Paul: A clever optical illusionist. I give him that.

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Jorge: And it sets us questioning what is real.

Letting go...

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Voice-over

Are there multiple realities? Parallel worlds? Or only one?

Borges declared that “Reality is not always probable, or likely.”

Yet some philosophers argue that everyone sees the same things. An extreme form of this opposing view is Sartre saying, “Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them...there is nothing” (Nausea, 1938).

Leandro Erlich Exhibition Seeing and Believing at Mori Art Museum.

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