Regimes of Truth: Art, Power, and the Making of Reality

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION

Regimes of Truth: Art, Power, and the Making of Reality Exhibition Dates: September 5 – 28, 2025

First Friday: Friday, September 5, 3:00 – 9:00 PM

Reception & Artist Talk: Sunday, September 14, 3:30 – 5:30 PM

Boston, MA — What is the truth, and who decides? These urgent questions lie at the heart of Regimes of Truth: Art, Power, and the Making of Reality, a new exhibition opening September 5 at TAG Art Gallery. Bringing together a diverse group of artists, the exhibition explores how truth is shaped not as an absolute or neutral concept, but as something generated through systems of power, discourse, and institutional influence.

The show takes inspiration from French philosopher Michel Foucault’s notion that every society constructs its own “regime of truth”, a framework of knowledge, norms, and authority that determines what is accepted as true, and who has the right to define it.

These regimes are reinforced through politics, law, education, culture, language, and media. Within this context, art becomes more than a mirror of society: it is a site where truth is constructed, questioned, and reimagined.

Artists in Regimes of Truth engage across media and approaches to:

• Critique dominant narratives and ideologies embedded in daily
• Reveal hidden or suppressed perspectives through visual, material, and performative means.
• Interrogate the institutional settings where truth is produced—galleries, schools, histories, and archives.
• Reimagine what can be seen, said, and known within a society governed by invisible rules.

By aligning with Foucault’s idea of critique, not as destruction but as a practice of making the familiar strange and the invisible visible, the exhibition asks timely questions: What role can artists play in questioning the truths we take for granted? How can creative practice open spaces for resistance, imagination, and transformation?

At a moment when contested realities and competing truths dominate public discourse, Regimes of Truth offers both a collection of powerful artworks and a provocation: to reconsider how we know what we know, and what futures become possible when those truths are challenged.

Exhibition Details:

Location: TAG The Art Gallery, 460C Harrison Ave, Unit 2C, Boston (SoWa)

Contact: Claudia Fiks: claudia@newenglandartcenter.com

M.774-551-6824

Participating Artists:

Aaron Brodeur, Amalia Tagaris, Anne Diamond McNevin, Caroline Grossman, Dan Foran, DaNice D Marshall, Deborah Quinan, Derrick Te Paske, Emily Sper, Fernando Fula, Francine Zaslow, Hilde-Kari Guttormsen, Jan Shapiro, Janet Lincoln, Jenne Rayburn, John Haiduk, June Krinsky-Rudder, Karin Stanley, Kathleen George, Katren Cleo, Kim Barry, Kris Laping, Kristen Freitas, Lisa Penny, Lois Arthur, Mark Jarzombek, Paola Bidinelli, Michael Bourque, Molly Lastra, Monica Tiulescu, Omar Vega, R. Douglass Rice, Raquel Fornasaro, Rebecca Skinner, Samantha Paris Estes, Sandra Mueller-Dick, Sepi Golestani, Sharon Whitham, Sherwin Long, Thomas Prato, Warren Mather, Winifred Breines, Yildiz Grodowski, Zeina Skaff Kahhale.

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About TAG: TAG (The Art Gallery) is a contemporary art gallery founded by Claudia Fiks in the SoWa Art & Design District. Home to more than 100 member artists, TAG presents a wide range of exhibitions throughout the year and maintains a strong presence on ARTSY, making member works accessible to global audiences.

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sunday 11am to 5pm or by appointment.

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