A Point Stretched: Views on Time
Friday, November 4, 2022 – Sunday, July 9, 2023
Nidhi Gandi mined the collection at the San Jose Museum of Art to find “artworks that stretch, warp, and compact the viewer’s sense of time. By highlighting works that endeavor to conceive of time in unusual, mutable, and unfixed ways, the exhibition challenges the histories we tell and the expectations we hold for the future.” Gandi also always has climate collapse on her mind, and composed the exhibit with this imperative close at hand.
Creep (2004) is an ode to the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, an ancient and exquisite creature both mysterious and beautiful. The exhibit is filled with wonderful works of art, many by artists I’ve admired for years. I’m delighted to have Creep in the company of works by Diana Al-Hadid, Ala Ebtekar, Harold Edgerton, David Huffman, Kahlil Robert Irving, Ranu Mukherjee, Patrick Nagatani, Sam Richardson, and many others.
