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Through the sophisticated montage of found footage and material he shot himself, the artist dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction, allowing them to enter into a multi-layered and humorous dialogue. He critically examines the tension between contemporary image production (with its rapidly developing technological possibilities) and the media construction of truth (with its frightening strategies of seduction and deception). Through the obvious editing and montage in glitch and retro aesthetics, he creates no illusions, but rather makes the mechanisms of media manipulation visible and deconstructs post-factual narratives through the self-empowerment of the protagonists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael G\u00fclzow \u2013 The Gateway to Unreality<\/strong><br>20.02.2026 \u2013 29.03.2026<br>Kunsthaus Graz<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum-joanneum.at\">www.museum-joanneum.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20.02.2026 \u2013 29.03.2026 In Michael G\u00fclzow&#8217;s exhibition \u2013 curated by Martin Grabner \u2013 as well as in the trailer he designed for Diagonale &#8217;26, the protagonists can not only travel through time, but also switch effortlessly between news programmes, science fiction scenes and \u2018alternative facts\u2019. 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