PRE / POST / EROUS (2023)
Single-channel video
H.264 / 1080p
6:15
Four generations of mothers and daughters enter an impossible conversation through what they chose to record. Excerpts from the artists’ own diary at age 11-12 ½ (2002), her mother’s at age 13 (1965), her grandmother’s at age 81 (1999), and her great-grandmother’s at age 26 (1912) weave together against a steady, constant ocean.
The title invokes the turbulent emotions scrawled on these pages, and plays on the etymology of the word: something that is both before and after at the same time. PRE / POST / EROUS is at once a meditation on the iterative act of keeping a diary and an attempt to invite the artist’s maternal lineage into conversations they could never have face-to-face.
Time Always Passes Except on Beaches (2023)
9-channel video installation
H.264 / 1080p
Looping videos very in length from 0:14 to 3:01
“The original task of a genuine revolution… is never merely to ‘change the world,’ but also — and above all — to change time.” – Giorgio Agamben
Time Always Passes Except on Beaches (2023) offers a portal through which to slip out of human-made “clock time” and into one of an infinite array of coexisting temporalities. Quoting Agnés Varda’s The Beaches of Agnes (2008), the title raises the question: where (or when) does time stop passing, behave strangely, invite change?
Nine looping videos sit at one of 12 points around a circle, with three empty spaces through which to enter and exit the porous enclosure. Rather than communicate an absolute, numerical time as their position might suggest, each video offers a distinct temporality: ocean time, thaw time, commute time, and so on.
Each video's corresponding audio plays both from a speaker embedded in its display and through accompanying headphones, giving viewers the option to experience all times at once or one at a time. In three of the videos a translucent digital copy of the artist appears, sometimes moving, sometimes still. The viewer is invited to imagine how this figure (or their own body) might exist amidst the remaining six timescapes, and what then might change.
