ABSTRACT
Interest in counterfactuals has increased in recent decades in fields from science and humanities to popular culture. It has also become clear that counterfactual art existed before the current rise in interest, though it has not yet been categorised as a genre in the fine arts in itself. The discussion of counterfactuals must not be confused with so-called alternative facts, which reveal their true nature already with the term, nor with parafacts or parafiction. Some artists deal with counterfactuals in their artwork only for a short period of their lives, whereas others seem to dedicate a major part of their artistic oeuvre towards these thoughts, the choices they have and the decisions they make. Dealing with the challenge and procedures of decision-making can be a time-consuming and difficult process; accordingly, the ideal media for representation proved to be time-based.
