This 3D printed installation explores the instability of truth through spatial orientation and linguistic opposition. A tilted cube, marked alternately with the words left and right, rests on a base inscribed with the title The Ontology of Truth.
The cube evokes structure and clarity, but the opposing inscriptions undermine this sense of order. Left and right suggest not only directions, but also ideological or moral positions. The work invites reflection on how truth is shaped by contrast, context, and perspective.
The installation draws on Martin Heidegger’s concept of aletheia—truth as unconcealment. Heidegger argued that truth is not a fixed correspondence, but a dynamic event in which something emerges from hiddenness. The cube, partly lit and partly obscured, enacts this tension between revealing and concealing.
Importantly, a cube never shows itself entirely: at most, three sides are visible at once, while the others remain hidden. To look at the cube is also to hide part of it. This basic geometric fact becomes a metaphor for Heidegger’s insight—every disclosure is also a concealment.
By presenting the cube in a state of imbalance and partial visibility, the work suggests that truth is never fully present or complete. It must always be approached from a particular angle, in a particular light. The Ontology of Truth becomes not only a reflection on what is shown, but on all that remains hidden.