There Are No Straight Lines

There Are No Straight Lines reconsiders constructed notions of time as being linear, instead looking towards notions of circular time that is considered to be repetitive, familiar, and continuous. This exhibition is a mediation of what it means to think about the contrasting effects between deep time and the present moment. Indeterminate spaces where beginnings and endings loop, continually forming in the middle. Time never ended, it never started.

In a complex web of the infinite, time is marked by repetition. The sun rises and sets, seasons change, planets and solar systems orbit, and living things go through the biological cycle of birth, life, death. The cyclic nature of time space blurs boundaries between memory and systems of knowledge, between fact and fiction, being and not being, between self and other, the here and now, the now and then. In this setting, time and space are experienced and understood in multiple ways, paving out a rich tapestry for capturing the minute and monumental, the everyday and the sublime.

Artists: Emma Bugg, Alicia King, Eloise Kirk, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Sara Morawetz, Cassie Sullivan, Jodie Whalen

Image: Cassie Sullivan, a spectral, a chronicle, 2025