The Moment Has Passed at UT’s Gallery 1010 inThe Emporium Arts & Cultural Center, Knoxville, TN
On display from December 2021 to January 2022
A minuscule blink and you’ll miss them moment can be memorialized into our physical world for years to come. And the very prints become ephemera that will be translated time and time again with each new viewer, context, frame, etc. Their vastness will open a door for anyone to walk into. Evoking a deeper thread, the work invites the viewer to wonder and wander somewhere in the liminal spaces: between light and shadow, water and air, memory and this present moment.
The work in this show utilizes a mysterious, fickle and unpredictable element: light. Time becomes a playful component while photographic techniques from the 19th century are exhibited alongside new media, creating a dialogue of then and now, new and old, the tangible and intangible, and a feeble attempt to bridge the memory gaps. Mined moments from 2016 to the present are represented through film photography; they play together to create a handful of malleable stories to walk into. Navigating themes around the flight of time, the work presents an open-ended dialogue, a kind of mythology that invites the viewer to piece it together and create their own story.