Ascensions of Time

▲ SOLO EXHIBITION @ BURRARD ARTS FOUNDATION  ( VANCOUVER )


Frieze, 2016
 
ASCENSIONS OF TIME
 
Opening:       September 8 · 2016 ⁄ 7 – 10pm
Exhibition:   September 8 – October 22 · 2016
 

 
Ascensions of Time explores our relationships with architecture, illumination, and time in ways that are at once physical and metaphorical. The exhibit is domiciled in a familiar armature of walls, floors, and portals: the specific space of an art gallery. We discover how light can bring architecture into being, defining its interior and exterior. Light draws out days and spaces for us. All the works gathered here speak to time as we perceive it and as it is measured out celestially. They deploy a spectrum of photographic technologies both old and new that encourage us to think through the paradox that architecture can be an extended photograph made by light in a room, or that photographs can be sculptural rather than flat images mounted on a wall. Each work functions as a station for our contemplation of how light in and on architecture also tracks time, not in the well-known sense of a building’s decay or the unfolding of styles, but because architecture is an apparatus that expands photography both spatially and temporally. Nizam asks how architecture embodies time, what architectural time is and feels like.
 
Exhibition Essay by Mark Cheetham
 

 
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