Installation View by Jonathan Bruce Williams, Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, 2025
Installation View by Jonathan Bruce Williams, Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, 2025

Both cheerful in tone and sinister in its implication, Let's All Abandon Reality Together echoes the seductive cadence of a propaganda slogan, a parodic call to action that reveals our complicity in a mass withdrawal from truth. Like effective propaganda, the phrase cloaks coercion in the language of choice, transforming alienation into a collective aesthetic experience. Yet Williams' glowing tableaux also speculate on the reparative potential of refusal, inviting viewers to abandon a manipulated reality that no longer sustains shared understanding. Together, these works form an ersatz mythology, a pantheon of shifting, color-changing ghosts, spectres of psychological liberation.

From Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya, New York, 2025.
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