MAC 2017: Pictures for an Exhibition

FOR TIME IS THE LONGEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO PLACES
Pictures for an Exhibition

Until March 12, 2017

This exhibition is part of the cycle Pictures for an Exhibition, a new series of projects based on works from the MAC Museum’s permanent Collection. The exhibition features around twenty works. It presents works that express need to define a typology of people’s relationships within time and space, and reveals artists’ desire to depict this relationship. All the works on display form a one whole, a single conceptual installation about a human being vis-a-vis a time-space continuum.

Its title “For time is the longest distance between two places” is a quote from Tennessee Williams’ 1944 play The Glass Menagerie. In this play, the characters turn out to be victims of time, faced with its irreversible linear nature. Their lives have temporal coordinates that center in the present moment.

The exhibition offers a selection of works that come from the MAC Museum Collection in which time is a subject of examination. They are works by Nicolas Baier, Patrick Bernatchez, Eric Cameron, Paterson Ewen, Charles Gagnon, Betty Goodwin, Eadweard Muybridge, Roman Opalka, Alain Paiement, Guy Pellerin, Jana Sterbak, François Sullivan, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan, Lawrence Weiner, as well as a work by Sarah Sze, titled Measuring Stick, 2015, which looks at the measurement of time and space through the moving image. (See top-most image in the article for Sarah Sze's work).

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Three other versions of Pictures for an Exhibition will be presented over the following periods:

March 28 - September 10, 2017
April 11 - August 13, 2017
August 22, 2017 - January 14, 2018 

The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art - Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) - website.