The video work, Momentary (Jack Tar Hotel 3 o’clock), features a slow zoom in to the object clock of the sculptural work with the same name, shown sitting on a counter in the artist’s studio, which slyly mimics the workspace of Gene Hackman’s sound surveillance expert in the film. There is no sound here, but the idea of surveillance is maintained through the viewing apparatus of the peephole. Watching time, not so much unfold, as unravel, one is reminded that duration does have varying velocity in experience, and that sound, too, has a range, one that includes silence as a volume.
Exhibition History: 2017 Christie Contemporary (Toronto, Canada)
See also: Momentary (Jack Tar Hotel, 3 o’clock), Still (from ‘The Conversation’)