Beyond the Surface

About

The Aletheia Collective are local artists who live and work in Suffolk and Essex. They began collaborating in preparation for the Harwich Festival of the Arts, 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was cancelled but Aletheia continued to collaborate on several projects investigating digital media working remotely, to explore selected themes, according to the artists’ predilections. The contributors vary depending upon the project and guest collaborators have included Susan Barnet and musician Mike Harris. Of the core members Briggs reflects on symbols and meaning, Limond delves into existentialism, Moss explores transient art, Riches investigates the human condition in his evocative, monochromatic portraits and Carter explores the beauty in nature. By interrogating and examining chosen themes, the collective is able to produce a fusion of stimulating ideas.

The collective’s contributing artists are contemporary and experimental in their approach employing a variety of media. For this year's Harwich Festival of the Arts, they are creating an interactive exhibition in Room 6 which they hope will be thought-provoking and stimulating.

The title of the exhibition ‘Beyond the Surface’ explores one aspect of Heidegger's philosophy, the fleeting unveiling of an inner truth or essence, revealed under exceptional circumstances. The exhibition also considers a more general concept of transience or impermanence. This, however, is only the artists inspiration, the collective hopes that the viewers will bring their own interpretations which are far more important.

Art may act as a mirror in which something of oneself may be revealed, if you choose to look.