This show was originally a solo exhibition of my work under ©JOYCE, works that are solely about time and clocks and all that. But I thought it would be interesting to ask friends of mine for their perspectives on time, and how they view their work in relation to those perspectives. My curiosity led me to the creation of this show. What time can mean to us collectively vs how it can mean to us individually- fascinates me.

Not just a definition of time, but the experience of it. The perception. The thought of four years wiped due to the COVID-19 pandemic being felt collectively, vanishing from memory, four years simply “not counting-” comes to mind. The artworks speak for themselves, but I thought it was important to ask the artists for their thoughts on time in writing. The diversity of the responses spoke to my obsession with time and its abstractions.

And what was interesting was how the artists, upon reflection, still managed to capture a perspective of time from work completed before the conception of the show. How each work of art- even without the artist’s explicit intention- were about time, the objects themselves were a product of time: the time it took to complete, a specific time in the artist’s life, suspended in their ‘completed state,’ and the artist’s perspective in the contemporary.
These works are Matters of Time.