Texture of Time

The MA course 'Curating the Contemporary', taught jointly by London Metropolitan University and the Whitechapel Gallery, is pleased to announce the exhibition 'Textures of Time', running from the 8th April- 14th April 2011.

Taking the notion of temporality as its point of departure, this exhibition will feature works by Jeremy Evans, Jill Townsley, Emily Speed, Ben Woodeson, Joby Williamson, Jörg Köppl and Yonatan Vinitsky. There will be a live performance by Ian Giles commencing at 7pm during the private view.

'Textures of Time' examines the contemporary as a moment in time where one has to make present time stand still in order to break it loose from the pulls of the past and push towards the future. Deviating from the modernist concept of history as linear, it aims to explore the possibility of an eternal present. Here, time presents itself as a continuous loop; an infinite period of postponement - approaching but not achieving the future. 'Textures of Time' gathers artists, curators and creative thinkers in an attempt to establish different perspectives on contemporaneity.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a parallel events programme of live events, film screenings, lectures and roundtable discussions.