Fragments from the dynamic contours of reality
GROUP I
APR 23 - MAY 9, 2025
Exhibiting
HEFT Gallery 300 Broome LES April 23 to May 13
Artists
Katie MorrisMario KlingemannJason SalavonKevin AboschEmi KusanoMargaret MurphyMichael MandibergObviousClownVampFingacodeShamus ClissetKevin EsherickLuke ShannonMaya ManRoope RainistoEdward Burtynsky & Alkan AvcıoğluGretchen Andrew
Truth or contemplates the shifting terrain of perception and how artists today articulate the hidden and emergent qualities of reality as a dynamic field that can be observed, constructed, quantified, felt, and expanded.
In a cultural moment often described as “post-truth,” the real feels increasingly fluid and fragile. Yet within this instability lies a deeper potential – not a collapse of meaning and understanding, but its pluralization. This echoes the opportunities raised by media theorists such as Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser, who anticipated a shift from centralized, linear understanding to a networked condition of interpretation. The rigid systems that once promised to organize knowledge for humanity have given way to vast and inspiring terrains of subjectivity, distortion, and unresolved signal are part of the fabric of reality that artists reimagine using methods finally capable of portraying believable complexity.
This territory outside the known is infinite, but this infinitude is not a void – it is an essential space of opportunity. “The purpose of life is to seek greatness through the grasp of the infinite,” wrote Alfred North Whitehead, offering a framework that resonates with these artists’ investigations beyond certainty and containment. The artworks in Truth or emerge from explorations in that space with fragments rendered into image, form, and experience. Once again, it is artists who pioneer new ways of engaging the immaterial, the unmeasurable, and the not-yet-known.
Artworks
Katie Morris
133 unique works
Mario Klingemann
Kevin Abosch
In Recovery: Accidental Transhumanism, Chaya, 2024
Archival pigment print
Emi Kusano
Margaret Murphy
Michael Mandiberg
Obvious
ClownVamp
Luke Shannon
Fingacode
Edward Burtynsky & Alkan Avcıoğlu
Maya Man
Kevin Esherick
Roope Rainisto
Jason Salavon
Shamus Clisset
"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."