Installation View D
Distributed across two galleries, Williams' works proceed from fully abstract optical compositions to still lifes, culminating in a signature series of pop-inflected text and image collages that combine found imagery with original illustrations. These works feature a motley cast of characters, including Patty Hearst, the Doomsday Clock, and The Terminator, who play out the collective melodrama of our contemporary unravelling. A disorienting visual choreography that oscillates between earnest phenomenological inquiry and darkly dystopic irony, Let's All Abandon Reality Together meditates on the power of nostalgia, spectacle, and embodied experience as both tools of psychological manipulation and methods for transformation.
From Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya, New York, 2025.
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