PSTL Gallery: Friday, 21 January 2011

PSTL Gallery is excited to present the work of Ryan Thayer. The exhibition opens Friday, January 21 with an opening that evening from 6–9pm. The exhibition will run through March 25.

Timemachines is a series of photographs exploring contemporary concepts of the future. These
photographs focus on a group of devices that take pictures and also display them. By directly exposing the screens of these cameras onto photographic paper a digital image is recorded as a unique photogram. These photograms combine the past with the present and the future by presenting a historical record of objects we consider to be futuristic, an archive of our past futures and an image of what the future looks like at this moment. An iPod is considered futuristic but it can only play recordings from the past. Laptops stream news “live” and iPhones provide instant video conferencing in FaceTime but here the present has been replaced with the concept of ʻreal timeʼ, a perpetually delayed experience of events. These devices are time machines and the future they propose displaces the present they are designed to enhance making us ever more connected to the past. In this series of photographs cameras are witnesses to their own obsolescence.

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