Durée Pure

‘Durée Purec’ or “pure duration” is a concept originally developed by the philosopher Henri Bergson who refers to and defines time as not limited to the clockwork of mechanical markings of passing time, rather he explores the lived experience of time: time as flow, a quantitative whole. Here in this exhibition, each artist explores this flow of time through a subjective lens. Time is melting. Time is stopping. Time is dripping. Time is being held. Time is cyclical. This subjective experience is then expanded upon through each viewer’s lens. Through the tactile perception of various materials including metal, canvas, wood, wax, makeup, sand, and pigment the amount of time that each material has already undergone and the amount of time that each material still has left is brought to the forefront. What exactly are we seeing in front of us?