In this issue, we are exploring how artists represent of time in their contemporary art practice. How do they show the concept of time and how it affects our lives? Why is it time flies by when we are absorbed in making and at other moments it slows? How do you feel about the theory that time is not linear or that it is a man-made concept? "We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”. And here is their response.
Artist name: Adriana Zúñiga Velásquez
Title: Subliminal Body, Media Photography, Size 50 x 70 cm, Year 2021
Description: Concept: The body is time, Time is movement, Movement is a dance, Dance is subliminal. The body lose the form in the movement, The movement lose the form in the dance, The dance lose the form in the time... Time is subliminal. Why: Because I see the movement as part of my cathartic process, I use the time as a way to explore the synaesthesia. Obstacle: I need put my Nikon camera in blur in a tripod to shot my photographs
Instagram: @adrianazunigavelasquez
Artist name: Anna Masters
Instagram: @AnnaMastersArt
Title: Retreat. Media, Watch and clock parts on nylon, Size. 70x70cm, Year, 2020
Description: Based on an innate sense that the passing of time can be loaded with hope and wonder, and concurrently with the grief of its passing, this series of works are about how we live with, treasure, grieve, bury and inhabit the accumulation of moments that make up our pasts and our visions of the future. When the mechanics of time are torn apart and the clocks prevented from ticking, can we inhabit this moment for just a little longer?
Artist name: Ema H Sintamarian
Instagram: @emasdas
Title: "Frames", Media mixed media (acrylic, gouache, pencil charcoal on paper), Size24" x 18", Year 2021.
Description: At the beginning of 2021 I started working concurrently on two series of drawings: "Frames", (a series of 35 drawings), and Petit Objet a desire (a series of 35 drawings).
Two of my theoretical premises for this series were Dziga Vertov’ experimental movie Man with a Movie Camera (in terms of employing anti-narrative to create a story) and Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty (in terms of use of colour and positive/ negative space).
Based on a somehow simplified formulation of quantum mechanics of the principle of uncertainty for position and momentum, we can say the more precisely the position or momentum of a particle is given, the less precisely can one say what its momentum is. By having broken down the forms to what might appear dispersed shape colours and suggested textures, and placing them into an ambiguous space, I intended to challenge how we operate with constructs such as space-time in creating systems that measure motion, and eventually assess changes. I also want to emphasize that everything that seems solid, be that fragmented, is really comprised of energy, and particles in motion are subject to human intervention.
Artist name: Caren Garfen
Instagram: @carengarfen
Title, The Means to an End, Media, Collage, vintage German/English phrasebook, German Classified Vocabulary book first printed 1938, vintage German/English dictionary. Size, 16cm x 22cm each (9 pages), Year, 2020.
Description: This artwork is a passage through time from the 1930s, Kristallnacht, the Holocaust, continuing to the present day. The persecution of the Jewish population in Germany began as early as 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power. I made this piece whilst researching the Holocaust, and examining the rise of global antisemitism today.
Artist name: Connor Mcintyre
Instagram: @connor9mcintyre
Title Bell, Book and Candle, Media, mixed media on wood panel, Size, 60 x 60 cm, Year, 2021,
Description: Bell Book and Candle refers to the last section of the excommunication ceremony in Catholicism. The Book is read. The Bell is rung. The Candles ( light ) are dashed. Allegorically this reflects upon the decline of our species (Sapiens) as the dominant force on our planet. Our co-existence with Artificial Intelligence is already ubiquitous, domination by Artificial General Intelligence, inevitable. In this sense, 'time' as we understand it, will cease to exist. The. End.Of. Time.
Artist name: Alexey Timbul
Instagram: @alexeytimbul
Title: #EyeWitnessCollage, Media, digital documentary photography, unedited, Year 2021 and earlier
Description: Since 2014, #EyeWitnessCollage is an ongoing series documenting "natural" collages formed within layers of street ads. It is a way to track urban zeitgeist as time changes all storylines. People manifested these images as something that mattered "then" and this project reassigns meaning to what has become essentially meaningless "now". Time and elements are co-creators here.
“Clubhouse Is Dead / Long Live Clubhouse” taken on Tenerife, Canary Islands in 2021
Artist name: Nasrin bosak
Instagram: @nasrin_bosak
Title: Passing of time
Media, Mix Media Resin, glue, cardboard, paint and egg, Size, 50×50, Year, 2021
Description: Birth is the beginning of life and the passage of time
Rotation, hope and the beginning of life.
Artist name: Francesca Giuliano
Instagram: @francesca.giuliano.here
Title: 900 Self Portraits Nr 216, Media, paper, glue, Size, 30x30cm - the stack is about 60cm high, Year, 2019-present.
Description: I have been making these 30x30cm collages since September 2019. They started as a few prompts for painting. Then mutated into a process for ‘making without thinking’ with a target of 900 (30x30). The idea was to explore the discomfort of making work that is purposely un-aesthetic. I also collate data such as number made per day, mean average, range etc. It is now, at 1086, an accidental endurance test with no foreseeable end, which in itself is another form of discomfort.
Artist name: Alexandra Huddleston
Instagram: @adh2103
Title: ‘untitled,’ from the series 'Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de L’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer', Media, digital photography, archival ink-jet print on paper, suspended from wood. Size, 17 by 57 in (43 by 145 cm). Year, 2021.
Description: This untitled sequence of photographs is from a series titled “Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de L’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer.” Photographs are images made both in time and with time, but although they can be piecing evidence of time’s passing, their stillness can also petrify a viewer’s consciousness of time by monumentalizing a single moment over others. By expanding beyond the single image, this series seeks to bring time, and its partners movement and metamorphosis, back into the consciousness of the viewer and into the finished work of art.
Artist name: Thore Sundermeyer
Instagram: @artethore
Title "what ist time?", Media, acrylic on canvas, Size 100 x 100 cm, Year 2016.
Description: What is time? what isn’t a definition? A clock? No a clock is a clock and only shows the time. The answer is time is movement ! Movement of the human body, movement of planets, movements of everything. Circles of planets are even the basics from century old sun clocks way before clocks were constructed. Here in Thore Sudermeyer’s shows the movement of time in this acrylic painting.
Artist name: Jacqui Jones
Instagram: @jacquijonesart
Title, Lines of Enquiry, Media, Sculpture - mixed media, Size, H22cm W16cm D16cm, Year, 2021.
Description: Sometimes we have to understand the past to consider the future. How do we measure mankind's impact over time? Scorched onto the surface of LINES OF ENQUIRY is an accurate scientific representation of the rise in global sea levels from 1920 - 2020, illustrating the inimical impact we have had on our surroundings over the past hundred years.
Artist name: MrKas
Instagram: @kasartofficial
Title, 11:12, Media, Acrylic on canvas, Size, 50 x 61 cm, Year, 2018.
Description: This is my version of Dali portrait with the moustache which make the hands of the clock .
Artist name - Keira Cronin
Instagram: @positivekeira
Title : Pi Time
Description: Pi is a never-ending number in relation to the circle. Cycle. Time. Time is never-ending. As subjects of time, one might reflect back that we too are never-ending. The scales of time weigh upon the rhythm of the universe. Expansion. A deep look into the laws that govern all that is. Time is a concept of the dimension in which we dwell. Its relativity comes down to our relationship to space and gravity. The way we move through space is experiential, its relativity lies within our perception. One might even dare to say that you have the power to manipulate time through your perception. Either that or time has the power to manipulate your perception of it. All paradoxes may be reconciled.
Artist Name: Michaela Hall
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaela_hall_artist/
Title:INSTAnt
Digital collage (2021)
This digital oversaturated collage explores the nature of time which feels sped up and instant due to a society obsessed with social media and having the latest to hand NOW. The title targets one of the main social media sites that contributes to this effect and the idea that time exists in our digital records and captures what we show online.