Installation View F
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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