Time Warp

I recently saw Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, and my reaction was the same as most people's: a mixture of feeling hypnotized (after having stared at a screen for hours) as well as in awe. Personally, the later sensation stems from seeing 12 years of time condensed into 165 minutes. This experience got me thinking about the process of aging and how difficult it is to capture time within a concrete object.

My exhibition will examine time as a physical entity. Artists of all medium are invited to submit work that explores or challenges the notion that time can be captured within a tangible object. Examples of this would be the rings on a cross section of an ancient tree or the yellowing crumbling surface of an old oil painting.

This exhibition will be displayed at a museum such as the Metropolitan. Generally speaking, galleries are environments strictly reserved for the contemporary. The galleries we toured in the L.E.S. seemed particularly invested in showing artists who are current, trendy, edgy, up and coming. In contrast, art displayed within museums (especially ones that contain a range of works spanning thousands of years) become part of a narrative of time. Encapsulated within the Metropolitan, works in this exhibition will function as time capsules evoking bygone moments.

To add a further layer of complexity, I would like for this exhibition to have no formal opening or closing. The artist will hang her piece within her own time fame; these pieces will slip in and out of the public's eye at the artist's will. The very nature of this exhibition will be as ephemeral as the subject it seeks to understand.

Realistically, this is not possible in a space such as the Metropolitan. However, it is interesting to consider the effect of presenting an object within a contemporary gallery versus within a museum. If the time objects of this exhibition were displayed in a gallery, they would automatically take on an air of modernity. Within a museum however, the objects would be timeless.