黑料不打烊

鈥淚 want to possess the atoms of time鈥� Clarice Lispector writes in the opening page of 脕gua viva, mid monologue on seizing the instant, the now, the present is, and recognizing that it is only in love 鈥渢he limpid star-like abstraction of feeling鈥� that this moment can be taken hold off, its fleeting delayed, at least experientially. Spinning off the Italian word piano, meaning slowly, and double functioning as title for the exhibition, we attempt to imagine another flow of time than what society runs by. For example, slowed down time, a suspense, natural time, or dream time. How do our minds and bodies experience in these alternate time frames? Heightened and intense thought processes and emotions can run at their own pace, "free" while possibly otherwise "trapped" by a lack of time to sit with them. Memories can appear, realities conflate with fantasies, history with the present, inner dialogues communicate with the universe. We were drawn to think about the myriad of possibilities when thinking outside "regular" time through Lispector's 脕gua Viva, in which words are strung together so frantically, representing exactly how one's mind runs but which rarely is captured, or possible to be captured, in words. Art, including poetry, seems to be able to get closer to non-linearity that way than language.