' When Time Dreams '
Group Show Curated by
Mano Leyrado
" If Indeed In a Dream There Can Be Awareness and Reference to a Previous Dream
As If It Were a Story , Is There Continuity , Another Life , Somewhere ? "
Peter Rock , The Night Swimmers
Through the lens of archaeological discovery, 'When Time Dreams' gathers an imagined material culture excavated from encounters with the past, the future and alternate timelines. Other temporalities act as a prism through which we interpret the present and uncoil the human fetishism of eternity and telos of chronology. The possibility of permanence today, on the other hand, is an exercise in plasticity. When time dreams is a poetic transformation of our existential concerns about time and immutability. In the contemporaneity in which we live the socio-political reality as an incomprehensible arrangement coated with an unfathomable complexity, dreams present themselves as the last bastion of imagination for a life that convinces us that the only sense in which time circulates is towards the future.
However, giving continuity is not the same as following. The present is preceded by an experimental expectation: "moving on" in a pandemic. But "ahead", if it is a place, can only exist when there is the illusion that time can vanish. We have been well aware for many years that space is curved. All time exists at once. Hauntology invites us to find in the present the cracks through which the past appears in order to make the future a territory for th e past that did not pass. The worm that dig s the tunnels between times is called beauty. It does not bring with it patterns of color and form, but an intention, to make perman ence possible throughout what is destined to disintegrate.
When time dreams happen during a "materialistic moment". To leave captive of beauty that temporal slit in which what has happened has not yet been captured by any unit of meaning. That moment in which the worm breathes on the surface before continuing its journey through the time corridors. When the artistic work resigns the possibility o representation becomes evidence. How could one establish a chronology for something that contains the past, develops in the future, and, even so, appears before our eyes today? There was a time when the excavation of the past was reduced to archaeology, and with it, to the colonization of eternity. The possibility of permanence in the present, on the other hand, is the exercise of plasticity. The preservation of the positivist illusion of creating an immutable and timeless sense is, in this exhibition, the permanent residence of our existential concerns in poetic transformation.
We Transformed a Long - Abandoned Factory Basement,
Unused for Over 20 Years, Into a Lively Creative Hub.
At
The Company Studios
Jun - Sep 2022
When Time Dreams Featured |
Anna Zachariadez (Germany) - Flavia Visconte (Argentina) - Ruggero Griffini (Italy) - Alessio Tamborini (Italy) - Hunter Longe (United States) - Joshua Goode (United States) - Julia Pereyra (Argentina) - Yunsun Kim (Korea) - Stephanie Blanchard (France) - Nicolau Dos Santos (Portugal)
Artworks Display and Exhibition's Set Up
Ruggero Griffini | Maximiliano Aduki
TXT
Agostina Mileo | Mano Leyrado
Photo Documentation
Cecilia Gil | Alessio Tamborini
Communication Design
Federico Paviani
Production
Shohei Goto | Maria Vittoria Gatti | Fillipo Carreta
Executive Production
Maximiliano Aduki
