Leslie Hewitt : Riffs on Real Time

Leslie Hewitt explores the role of photography in recapturing the past.  

She is interested in how much we rely on images to provide memories of personal experience, how collective memory of past events is shaped and preserved, and in how the two overlap, coexist, and inform each other. The exhibition presents a focused look at an artist whose work marks emerging currents in contemporary artistic practice.

The exhibition features Riffs on Real Time (2006–2009), a group of 10 photographs from an ongoing series started in 2002, shown together for the first time. In a recent interview with ICA Associate Curator Randi Hopkins, Hewitt shared some thoughts about her work: