Reality Check
Billytown•Aug 29, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026
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…we know what a tear is, in the sense that a tear is always anything but itself—even that the tear is a lie.
T. Gerards’ and Heidi Holmström’s show Reality Check is an insistence on invisible structures. One has to imagine oneself, if one is willing to, standing in front of, next to, and beside these works, making oneself question how these works—and the curatorial choices surrounding them—came about. What exactly are the systems of emotional and theoretical resonance that hold these works together? This moment of disastrous unknowing is exactly what lies at the heart of the show. It is a brute force, a recognisable landscape. But like every mountain, tree, and river we see again and again, we find ourselves redescribing what these landscapes consist of, recognising the brute forces that make our realities into modes of comfort, creating an echo through space and, ultimately, through the viewer themselves. Here, however, echo and repetition allow an act of violence to enter the space.…
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Reality Check
Billytown•Aug 29, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026
Press Release
…we know what a tear is, in the sense that a tear is always anything but itself—even that the tear is a lie.
T. Gerards’ and Heidi Holmström’s show Reality Check is an insistence on invisible structures. One has to imagine oneself, if one is willing to, standing in front of, next to, and beside these works, making oneself question how these works—and the curatorial choices surrounding them—came about. What exactly are the systems of emotional and theoretical resonance that hold these works together? This moment of disastrous unknowing is exactly what lies at the heart of the show. It is a brute force, a recognisable landscape. But like every mountain, tree, and river we see again and again, we find ourselves redescribing what these landscapes consist of, recognising the brute forces that make our realities into modes of comfort, creating an echo through space and, ultimately, through the viewer themselves. Here, however, echo and repetition allow an act of violence to enter the space.…
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