Local Time, solo exhibition, The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects, Columbus, OH
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The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects presents Jessica Mallios: Local Time, an exhibition and publication project based on ephemeral shifts of light, time, and material inspired by Mallios’ recent trip to Dubai.
The trip was totally a hunch. I’ve been thinking about utopian aspirations that emphasize a desired view.
In Dubai, I didn’t know exactly what I was searching for besides the Burj Khalifa’s marketed strategy: the tallest tower in the world.
The physical experience of the atmospheric conditions of light, sand, glass, and heat blurred my eyesight.
Glass architecture always references the camera— the barrier we always look through.
A live view, an unfixed view.
Tethered to the history of photography and seeing.
The glass is a material dialectic between looking through and looking at simultaneously, just as a photograph is a thing to see as well as a thing to see with.
Expectation is something that interests me when I look at images.
I often think about how vantage can become authoritative.