It is interesting how almost all works of art these days try to change our worldview. They talk about opening our eyes, shifting our perception, dispelling myths, lifting facades or something in that general direction. But why? Are we to believe the modern world is full of illusions and we have wandered so far into Wonderland that we cannot find our way back without the guidance art so helpfully offers us? And what would we find if all the myths were dispelled, our perceptions shifted and our eyes opened? What is this reality that capitalism has hidden from us?

Maybe we don't want to see the reality any more. Maybe that's why an artists' life is so difficult, because no one wants to be shown "the Truth" (if there is such a thing). Are artists the Don Quixote's of our time? Or maybe they have always been.

In any case Neu/Now offers a great overview of what young artists are up to these days. It feels great to live in a time when all the worlds art is at everyone fingertips, giving rise to a number of rule- and groundbreaking works of art, that dare to ask every possible question without fear of finding the answers, whatever they may be.