“100 Years of Transparency” revisits some of the most well-known events of the past century—not to reaffirm official histories, but to expose what they suppress. Through redacted files, censored records, and the printed remnants of state silence, this exhibition confronts the machinery of erasure that has shaped public memory.

What does it mean to inherit a narrative built on omission? What truths have been blacked out in the name of security, order, or nationalism?

The exhibition asks viewers to sit with these uncomfortable silences, to question what has been obscured, withheld, and rewritten, and to consider how silence is constructed, maintained, and weaponized.

Print - often assumed to be a medium of clarity and permanence - becomes here a vessel for the unsaid, the unseen, and the systematically erased. What you see is not absence, but protest against a larger, deliberate architecture of forgetting.

This is not a history lesson, and prior knowledge of these events is not required. The aim is not to inform, but to provoke: to provoke critical thought, inquiry, and doubt.

In a world where the illusion of “freedom of speech” and “freedom of information” is used to mask deliberate acts of suppression, this exhibition invites you to look again at what you’ve been told, what you haven’t, and what was made invisible on purpose.

Disclaimer
While this exhibition is curated with a wide audience in mind, the selected events and materials reflect a predominantly Western framework. This is not to overlook or devalue other critical historical moments, but rather a reflection of the limitations we encountered (archival access, available resources, and structural constraints). Many histories remain under-documented, deliberately silenced, or out of reach. We acknowledge these absences and recognize that the omissions within this exhibition mirror the very mechanisms of exclusion and redaction it seeks to explore.