Material Time - Residue, Compression

Material Time examines how surfaces hold and compress time. Through processes of layering, erosion, reduction and accumulation, the works presented operate as material records of duration rather than fixed images.

Across painting and object-based practices, time is not depicted but embedded. Surfaces become sites of retention and disturbance, carrying traces of process, pressure, gesture and repetition.

The project brings together works in which material behaves as a temporal condition: unstable, compressed and continuously transforming.

Rather than resolving immediately, the works unfold gradually, requiring sustained attention and establishing a slower relation between viewer, surface, culture and time.

Structure and Contexts.

Current Investigations.

Material Time operates as an adaptive exhibition structure through which different material conditions can be encountered across evolving spatial and curatorial contexts.

Possibility, Change, Survival

A preview of the this developing investigation into how possibilities, change and survival to create the art we experience today. Preview here

activated through works by:

  • Daniela Naomi Molnar

  • Simon James

  • Kate Brown

  • Boz Mugabe

  • Rinat Goren

  • Sergio Policicchio

  • El Seed

  • Sean Cotter

  • Liberty Blake

  • Abu Jafar

  • Miae Kim

  • still unfolding

The Founding Concept

A sequential digital manifestation examining how surfaces register accumulation, compression, erosion and residue across expanded durations of viewing.

activated through works by:

  • Brian Martin Brooks

  • Anis Tabaraee

  • Ines Hildur

  • Gabriele Kurzbauer

  • and more

In Compression, material is subjected to pressure, visually and physically. Forms are reduced, condensed, and held in tension. Time is compacted into dense surfaces, where gesture and structure converge.

Brian Martin Brooks
Continuum Field I, 2025–26
Oil on canvas
100 × 100 cm

Gabriele Kurzbauer
LinUntitled
Cotton on Canvas, 2025
100 × 60 cm

Brian Martin Brooks
Continuum Field I, 2025–26
Oil on canvas
100 × 100 cm

Anis Tabaraee
Linger, 2026
Mixed Media
30 × 20 cm

Residue - Surfaces retain the marks of erosion, layering and removal. What remains operates as a compressed material cultural record rather than a resolved image.

Anis Tabaraee
Survival, 2025
Oil on canvas
80 × 90 cm

Anis Tabaraee
Relic, 2025
Mixed Media
30 × 20 cm

Anis Tabaraee
TBC, 2025
Mixed Media
100 × 100 cm

Ines Hildur
Structures in Transition
Die feine Nuance, Acrylic, collage and mixed media on canvas, 2026
100 × 100 cm

unfolding further.

Further information and available works on request