Best Installation
De Tempore
In November and December, in conjunction with the Nelson's Tempus Fugit exhibition, Grand Arts hosted a show called De Tempore. It focused on objects that made the abstract notion of time's passage visually concrete and tangible. The three artists who contributed were Jyung Mee Park, Tara Donovan and Achim Mohne. Park's work, in particular, could not have been more astoundingly presented. After burning designs onto small wooden bowls and discs using a magnifying glass in the sun, she took the wood shavings and ash and made charcoal that she then used to compose drawings. Park's drawings were displayed in one well-lit room, but in an adjacent, dimly lit space, she installed the decorated bowl and discs with lighting that cast giant shadows of the tiny objects on the walls. Without the dramatic lighting, Park's work would still have been interesting as the result of a visually traceable, time-consuming process, but the display would not necessarily have been attention-getting or beautiful. The room, however, was simply breathtaking.
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