fact that we can't trust our own sense anymore on so many different levels for one thing digital imaging technology has progressed so far that we it is really difficult to know if we can actually size something up by merely looking at it as to whether it is real or whether it is fake we know that for a fact but this is also all about the thrill of deception which is actually the title of the exhibition and i'm going to quote a guy named the knees who once said that man is his own dupe because what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true and you know that could be a statement today in our age of fake news and distant from asian but developed and he's actually lived in ancient greece about three hundred years some three hundred years before christ so it's very interesting that what we'll see in this exhibition is that artists have been playing around with our senses for millenia they have managed to pack four thousand years of optical illusions into this show so it's a real opportunity for a classic double take. things are not always what they seem the third