Manifest Disconnect Opening Reception

History is broken down into countless pieces of fact. However, when it is woven together as a whole, does it often lose its truth?

History is not a static record of truth. It is a constructed narrative, shaped by the hands that write it and the silences it enforces. Though it presents itself as whole, history is, in reality, a mosaic of fragments, selected or omitted to serve those in power. When these fragments are stitched together too neatly, we risk mistaking coherence for truth.

From the erasure of entire cultures in colonial archives to the "Lost Cause" mythology of the American South, fabricated histories have long justified systems of oppression. Consider Herodotus, the so-called “father of history,” whose writings blurred the line between reportage and mythology. Or Plato’s “noble lie,” the idea that myths, even if false, could unify society. History, then, is not merely a record of facts,…