Heide Museum of Modern Art will present National Gallery of Australia exhibition TERMINUS, a collaboration between New York based visual artist Jess Johnson and Wellington, New Zealand based video maker and animator Simon Ward. Exploring reality as malleable and multiple, the exhibition features five virtual reality artworks situated on a full-scale tessellated floor map and was curated by National Gallery Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Jaklyn Babington. Commissioned by the National Gallery and the Balnaves Foundation, TERMINUS will be presented for the first time in Melbourne at Heide Museum of Modern Art from Saturday 2 November 2019 to 1 March 2020. It is the first stop of its national tour by the National Gallery of Australia.

TERMINUS is a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, explored via a network of travellators and gateways, that presents the viewer with a quest into the technological, and through time and space, as they explore five distinct realms.

IMAGE: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Terminus 2017 – 18 (still), virtual reality experience in five parts: colour, sound. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2017. Purchased 2018