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Following on the heels of postmodern theoretical discourse, Hugo Cantegrel's practice acknowledges the relative nature of truth – the fluid border between reality, its interpretation, and fiction. A wide range of media is connected by the same unified scope and distinctive playful language. Everyday occurrences are transformed through the curious usage of materials to create the unforeseen aesthetic experience and subsequent intellectual engagement. The physicality of the artwork thus becomes a relic of the artist’s process of investigation into the essence of things; meaning, on the …