MATERIALISED TIME

Materialised Time is an exhibition which explores the capacity of material objects as conduits for temporal reflections.

The world operates along the linear successive units of seconds, minutes, hours, days and years; sublime rhythmic abstractions. Money, when embedded into a relationship with time results in a capitalist social environment which bears a strong influence on personal temporal patterns. However, time is not always money. The clock is neither the only means of showing and experiencing time, nor the only tempo to dance along to in our passage through time.

Intermingling of times, events and rhythms happen all around us. For instance, gathered in a train are thousands of years of locomotive achievements by human beings which trace to different periods and places. We wait impatiently in the subway station, itself an architectural structure of ever contemporaneous stainless steel and glass. Indifferent to our anticipation, a newspaper is being read, a faulty water tap drips, a couple squabbles, a painted surface weathers and a faraway star explodes.

At every moment, the materials of the world confront us with a medley of simultaneous temporal horizons. Networks and entanglements across different times, pasts, presents and futures are continually generated. 

Human beings are made of time. We emerge, evolve and expire. Material things are companions to our sense of emergence and passing, forgetting and reminiscing. They offer a tangible presence for us to mark and grasp the 
passage of time.

Through a variety of material processes and temporalities embodied in the works, this exhibition aims to persuade the audience to reconsider accustomed notions of time. Materialised Time hopes to open up a space adjacent to economic rhythms, a space where productivity and speed are not prioritized over the intuitive drive of our own sense of being.