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Valeska SoaresBroken Year
Alexander Gray Associates, New York: January 13–February 26, 2022
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Valeska Soares, 2018. Photo by Ross Collab.
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Valeska Soares, Broken Year (April 2021), 2022 (detail)
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“…Another thing that’s interesting about watches and hands is that if you start with a group of watches set at the same time, in a few hours or days they may no longer be in sync. That’s part of the reason why I took the hour hand off the watch in Ouroboros. That work is intended to be much more about movement and subjectivity, the way the object relates to a concept in someone’s mind, than precision in measurement.”
— Valeska Soares
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While the glacial pace of Ouroboros marks the passage of time on an epochal scale, gesturing to what geologists call “deep time,” Broken Year reflects discrete personal, daily moments. Between them, the two works evoke a collective human experience which, while demarcated in specific dates, transcends a unique period to touch on our shared experiences of time, memory, and loss.
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"Time has always been of interest to me. Initially it was the creation of a timeframe through the attention span a work demanded. We live in a society where time is fragmented. You can simultaneously talk, text, and watch TV. Time is subjective, and technically imprecise; it’s just a way to synchronize events in space. For example, we’re going to meet for lunch at two o’clock. But who knows what “two o’clock” means. I have no sense of other people’s subjective time. I live by myself, I can wake anytime I want, I can sleep anytime I want, and I travel a lot, so I get lost in time zones."
— Valeska Soares and Kelly Taxter in conversation, 2016
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