Galerie Baer, Dresden
Stop and Go (kuratiert von Mathias Wagner)
18 March, 2011 bis 21 April, 2011In our present time non-stop actions of communication and mobility suggest that the overcoming of time and space virtually as well as physically is possible at any time. We have nearly dismissed the thought that everything takes its time. Every waking second is filled with information, events and activities. Time during which little or nothing happens is said to be unproductive. To take a break, to be able to wait in order to start something of which the outcome is not foreseeable, to do nothing, to take time – these needs have been eliminated by the philosophy of life which demands everything. at the same time. now.. It looks as if the enormous acceleration of every aspect of our life has changed our sense of having time and dealing with time to a huge extent. An around the clock availability and the increasing speed of the internet lead us to believe that the human could function as quickly and flexible in real life. We are not able to keep up of course. The more intense the timely concretion becomes the frailer we react, if the flow of pieces of information and actions slows down or is even cut. Then we get mixed up, impatience takes over. The disposition to wait is diminishing nowadays.
As a psychological category the term impatience is hard to get a grip on. The term itself is according to the absence of an inversion of the concept dependent on its contrary. Impatience is at first an individual reflex. It is a feeling which occurs when the inner clock is running faster than real time is actually passing. Especially when one is exposed to situations and events of which one cannot influence the durance of but which one would like to accelerate. But it is the experience of impatience, a mandatory break, which leads to intensely feel a one-dimensional, target-orientated relation towards time that we have developed.
Because impatience is within its erratic character a subjective feeling it is difficult to find general images for it. Within art impatience rarely appears as a concrete subject und motif beyond thinkable depictions of (im)patience as vice. Moments of impatience belong to the area of by-products of the artistic creative process and to the reaction of the crowd without defining impatience as such. The artistic altercation of different phenomena of time within the conflicting area of impatience and patience are often bound to one situation in which different sections of time and space contrastingly confront or overlay. Thereby the visualized concept of time within the image, photograph, object or film is relating to the measure of time of the viewer. Through this action intervals are created which permit a differentiated experience of time.The galerie baer has chosen several works for this exhibition – films, objects, graphic art, photos – which do not contain (im)patience as an explicit content but which do address our management of time and our timekeeping in different manners and on different associative areas. Various visual strategies and forms of expression reprehend to individual aspects of movement, stagnancy, moment and duration, speed and slowness, the amplitude of events or an absence of events.
