Material Time: Possibility, Change, Survival

What determines what an image can become?

How do colour, medium and technique shape what is made, and how does time alter what survives?

This presentation explores how available materials, new colours, technical limitations and changing processes influence visual form and artistic ideas.

It also considers what happens afterwards: fading, wear, repair, fragmentation and loss, and how these changes affect the way we understand what remains.

How much of the image we see today is the image that was originally made?

The investigation is activated through works by the participating artists, whose details appear at the end of the presentation. The sequence moves from possibility, through process and change, towards survival, reflecting how materials and techniques shape what can be made before time determines what remains for us to see.

Possibility - What could be made?

Possibility I -Tilke Elkins

Possibility II - Simon James

Possibility III - Kate Brown

Becoming - Process and Change

Becoming I - Boz Mugabe

Becoming II - Rinat Goren

Becoming III - Meghann Riepenhof

Becoming IV - Sergio Policicchio

Becoming V - El Seed

Becoming VII - Sean Cotter

Becoming VI - Stephanie Rew

Becoming VIII - Sophia Huitema

Becoming IX - Dathi Magner

Survival - What image reaches us?

Survival I - Liberty Blake

Survival II - Abu Jafar

Survival III - Miae Kim

unfolding further.

What shapes the image we inherit?

We have proposed four lines of enquiry.

Possibility.

Process.

Change.

Survival.

But other forces remain.

Scarcity.

Trade.

Ritual.

Repair.

Decay.

Restoration.

Loss.

Chance.

The investigation continues.

Presentation activated by the works of:

Tilke Elkins
Seán Cotter
Simon James
Kate Brown
Peter Schäublin
Boz Mugabe
Rinat Goren
Mari Amman
Meghann Riepenhof
El Seed
Sophia Huitema
Liberty Blake
Stephanie Rew
Miae Kim
Brian Martin Brooks
Daithi Magner
Sergio Policicchio
Abu Jafar

Further information and available works on request