As If We Were Real

“As If We Were Real” examines the fragile equilibrium between perception and invention, the quiet friction that arises when reality no longer feels sufficient, and imagination becomes a survival instinct.
The exhibition unfolds as a meditation on how images, gestures, and memories fabricate our sense of truth, even when that truth is built on distortion.

In this space, the boundary between the inner and the outer world dissolves. The self becomes landscape; emotion, a form of architecture. What we perceive is no longer what is, but what we need to see, a sequence of reconstructions stitched together by longing, memory, and desire.
Reality is experienced as a mirage we continuously chase: a surface that bends to accommodate our fears, our fantasies, our need for coherence. To live, to feel, to remember, all of it depends on that fragile act of believing as if it were real.

Isaac Psalm Escoto paints from the heart of contemporary noise: his fluorescent figures, both grotesque and tender, emerge from the visual chaos of the everyday. Between satire and confession, they expose the vulnerability of a psyche shaped by overexposure, the impossibility of being real in a culture obsessed with appearance.

Alistair Canvin responds through stillness. His environments of windows, keys, smoke, and flight exist between sculpture and painting, intimacy and distance. Surfaces bear traces of touch, rust, ash, fingerprints, grounding illusion in human residue. Each work feels like a portal into another life, half-seen, half-felt, suspended between observer and participant.

Together, the two artists open a dialogue about the instability of the real, about how much of what we call truth is simply projection, memory, or wish.As If We Were Real becomes both a statement and a longing: that our worlds, however imagined, might still touch the pulse of something true.