- Venue
- Shtager&Shch
- Starts
- Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- Ends
- Wednesday, October 18, 2023
- Address
- Lower Ground Floor, 51-53 Margaret Street, London W1W 8SQ
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Shtager&Shch
Timescapes brings together eight international artists whose work reflects aspects of time, whether exploring historical of philosophical references, adhering to assiduous processes or working with transient materials.
Creating a dialogue between works by established artists with those by emerging talent and spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and photography, the exhibition transcends cultural and geographical borders to highlight the relevance of perceptions of time in contemporary art today.
Hiraki Sawa uses poetic and subtle animations to investigate memory gaps as physical loss of time, while Rebecca Halliwell Sutton references ancient rituals and processes to contemplate moments between past and future. Tom Hardwick-Allan presents a triptych of circles to represent cycles of time by applying natural patterns to plywood and bringing back to life the compressed and deadened slices of processed timber.
Solveig Settemsdal and Paul Barlow both investigate notions of movement through time; the former’s videos depicting the emergence and disappearance of aqueous forms, while the latter directs the ebb and flow of liquid paint into vibrant estuaries. It is unclear if Min Woo Nam works with or against time when creating his meticulous paintings in one uninterrupted session.
Combining stillness and motion as a solid cube of water Shahpour Pouyan recalls the primordial ocean as the source of all life in time, whereas Yelena Popova considers soil as an archive of natural and human activity and cautions against historical and future repercussions.
Quoting curator Maria Hinel (Borshchevska): “the artists in the exhibition make visible the moments of change and stillness, time stretched and condensed, anchored by the clock or a cycle of light and motion in the external landscape, indirectly suggesting other ways of thinking about the environment and human future on the planet.”
Exhibiting artists:
Paul Barlow, Rebecca Halliwell Sutton, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Min Woo Nam, Yelena Popova, Shahpour Pouyan, Hiraki Sawa, Solveig Settemsdal
