RK Contemporary

On Exhibition

• ‘Taking a Moment’ curated by Simona Stone -

  ‘Taking a Moment’ curated by Simona Stone

  What does it mean to truly pause? How does the world move around and within you? Begin by watching; then crouch, peel back, gather, and repeat.
  
  A pause is both temporal and spatial: an expanse you occupy, even briefly. By 'taking a moment,' you try to carve out a space in time to be still. Yet even this supposed stillness, this moment is not immune to the past.
  
  Okello and Duran suggest, "A framing of time and realities as palimpsestic, or imperfect erasure, suggests that the past is visible and acting upon the present." The palimpsest emerges, one moment leaking into another, its identity and beauty rooted in the impurity and blurring of ideas from different times.
  
  A moment trusted to be still is anything but. Like the tangibility of our bodies, we rely on the 'solidity' of time to make sense of ourselves and the world. Yet solidity provides comfort and simplicity that time does not offer. The spread of a stain on fabric cannot be controlled, just as the layering of time cannot be stilled.
  
  Artists were invited to play with scale and examine how moments are woven together. Seek the energy and voices between the threads. Witness their binds.
  
  Embrace these leaky moments, and look toward the marks left by 'imperfect erasure.' These moments are open to personal interpretation. Take your moment, embrace its lack of purity, the play among its moving parts. Capture how you navigate the tension between pause and the perpetual flux of time.
  
  The exhibition is on display from 24 August - 28 September 2024