TIME:LAPSE
curated by the School for Curatorial Studies Venice

Artists: Roma Bantik,Giovanni Borga, Robert Blatt, Camille Theodet,  Raqs Media Collective, Kensuke Koike with a public screening program with contributions by Marina Faust, Dmitri Sarkisov, 0rphan Drift (Visuals Maggie Roberts and Suzie Karakashian, Audio Ocosi and vocals Ranu Mukherjee), Iida Jonsson, Ssi Saarinen, in collaboration with Ona Julija, Lukas Steponaityte and Alexander Iezzi, Danilo Correale, Semiconductor, Tommaso Pandolfi  and a selection of videos from the Servais Family Collection, Brussels, including videos of Leo Gabin, Arturo Hernandez Alcazar, Sadik Sara, Jura Shust Sari Dorian, Thomas Verstraeten,  MI KAFCHIN Hortensia, Petra Cotright, Larry Achiampong. Candice Breitz, Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

“One can only forget about time by making use of it.” – Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals: Mon cœur mis à nu.

On the 28th of August, the fellows of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice, in collaboration with A plus A Gallery, will host the opening of Time:lapse, a speculative exhibition tracing the experience of time in late-capitalist society. As the proliferation of communications technology has created a more networked world, time is felt not just to have accelerated but become multiple, simultaneous, and asynchronic. Time:lapse showcases a collection of international artists who recast this chronological fragmentation as an opportunity for play, employing the technological architecture of time as a creative tool itself.

American artist and composer Robert Blatt’s Book of Hours presents temporality folded into the material form of a book, creating a mode of time which is at once immanent to the work and sculpted by the viewer’s engagement. Reflecting the vertical orientation of the screens through which the media landscape compacts the world, Venetian multimedia artist Giovanni Borga’s mechanical installation Willie Pete is Running Wild alludes to the repetitive, obsessive motions that accompany our everyday consumption of spectacle. Driven by the energetics of the dopamine economy, this deluge of images constitutes an anarchic temporality, where everything and anything can coexist at once. A series of paintings by French artist Camille Theodet channel this sense of disorientation into a visual form, playing on an ambiguity of affect as a source of creation in itself.

The curators have adopted an experimental approach to exhibition-making by deconstructing the logic of consumption that drives the attention economy. Part of the gallery space has been transformed into a research station, inviting viewers into the exhibition’s production process—documentation, reference literature, and the curatorial team’s working materials are made available to the public, dissolving the binary between producer and consumer. Additionally, a curated selection of video art by Orphan Drift, Marina Faust, and Dmitri Sarkisov will be screened as part of the immersive environment.

Functioning as a spatial and temporal extension of the show, this screening program explores the theme of temporal fragmentation by disrupting the fixed rhythm of the exhibition and allowing passersby to engage with the works at any hour. A selection of these videos has been provided by the Servais Family Collection, Brussels.

Time:lapse invites visitors to rethink and reimagine their use of time – and to ask how they might still find connection, coherence, and care within the contemporary politics of time.

Time:lapse is curated by the fellow curators of the Summer International Curatorial Programme 2025, organized by the School for Curatorial Studies Venice:  Mina Baniahmadi, Aruseak Hovhannisyan, Rei Magongoa, Lily Keeler, Ana Ioana Olar, Moe’Neyah Holland, Noor Sharma, Gopika Kohli, Riya Jain, Polina Mikhailova, Sean Burke, Viola Amico, Iuliia Kulikova, Akanksha Kamble, Daria Chelpachenko, Lina Alshihabi

Timelapse runs from 28 August to 25 October, 2025.