A WAY OF EXPOSING ORDINARY LIES
Pamela Meyer, the author of , claimed that ‘human beings lie about 10 to 200 times a day, and lie three times on average in the first 10 minutes to someone they meet for the first time’. Even if you don’t believe in this, it’s startling how many times we deceive others and are deceived throughout the day. If there really was a Pinocchio’s nose, the world might have built a dense forest of Pinocchio noses that take nourishment from lies. Nonetheless, the ability to detect lies in a busy life is not very much reliable. Familiarity breeds laziness. On the 29th of October last year, the exhibition ‘Ordinary Lie’ opened at the Seoul Museum, shedding new light on the various levels of deception and the truth of lies, from the trivial lies in our day-to-day lives to the magnitude of
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