VÉRITÉ, AURA ET POST-VÉRITÉ DANS L’ART CONTEMPORAIN
TRUTH, AURA AND POST-TRUTH IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a comparative analysis of contemporary shifts in the aesthetic experience and the institutional mechanisms that legitimise contemporary art. By combining a phenomenological approach to perception (Celibidache, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty) with a socio-institutional analysis of the role of museums, it demonstrates that aesthetic truth is not an immanent quality of the work, but rather the product of technical, media and institutional mechanisms. The rise of digital technologies, immersive environments and extrinsic techniques is profoundly altering the regimes of perception, mediation and artistic recognition. Whilst reproduction and immersion appear to undermine the aura of the original work, they simultaneously give rise to new forms of embodied and participatory experience. In this context, museums play a central role in the construction of aesthetic truth, whilst simultaneously fostering regimes of post-truth fueled by the emotional contestation of artists and audiences excluded from the circuits of legitimation. The technological transformation of the aesthetic experience and the growing centrality of museum institutions are giving rise to a two-pronged trend: on the one hand, an intensification of the mediation and spectacularisation of art; on the other, the emergence of emotional challenges that undermine trust in the institutions that confer legitimacy. The article highlights a shift in aesthetic criteria, where extrinsic techniques tend to supplant intrinsic ones, and examines the effects of this transformation on the production, reception and criticism of contemporary art. The crucial issue, therefore, is no longer to settle the question of the value of contemporary art, but to shed light on the social, technical and institutional conditions under which it is recognised.

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