YEAR: 2025
EXHIBITION LOCATION: RIVERSIDE GALLERY, CAMBRIDGE, ON
FEATURED WORK: MATERIAL WORKS
CURATED BY: Elizabeth Ann Lenny (BAS '19, MArc'21)
EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
How can we approach the research and the creation of architecture and design, not only through immediate encounters, but as something which has a history?
Hannah Arendt defines work as useful objects that are durable because they are a tangible manifestation of experience. In an era of context collapse, and image proliferation, an understanding of context has been lost and work has become abstract, losing its durability. Tracing Time explores how the indexing of time restores the tangibility of work, asking how context, process and history can create meaning.
An index can be understood as a physical trace. It is a phenomenon that speaks of processes that have taken place in time, it indicates. The work included in the exhibition exemplifies trace through the form and shape of trees, adaptive and material reuse, and the examination of changes in landscapes, architectural typologies, iconography, and signage. Tracing Time presents work of a wide variety of scales and themes but is united through the tracing of time and the desire to make context visible.
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