Now, Then, Next: Time and the Contemporary
15 June 2019 – 8 March 2020
Time and the contemporary in recent works from the collection
Time is a problem in the contemporary world—and has been both a subject and an over-arching presence in contemporary art for a while now. In this exhibition from the collection featuring several recent acquisitions, artists offer different ways to think about time, exploring the multiple anxieties of the future or the persistence of the past in the present. Time features here as a series of fleeting but colourful moments; as a kowhaiwhai design marked on the arm of a hospital chair; or as a cycle of eternal return in which everything that was old eventually becomes new again.
Curator Lara Strongman