Turn, Turn, Turn: Picturing Time
August 5, 2025鈥揓uly 2026听
Can time be held, seen, reimagined?
Turn, Turn, Turn invites viewers to consider how artists capture, challenge, and reshape our understandings of time. Through depictions of specific hours of the day, seasonal shifts, and historical moments, the artworks anchor the intangible in the material. Prints by William Hogarth and Utagawa Hiroshige, for example, offer glimpses into daily life across different eras and geographies.
Yet, the concept of time听is much more challenging to render. Resisting linear and progress-oriented notions of time, the artworks in this exhibition open pathways to alternate timelines that reclaim suppressed histories and envision futures beyond the narratives imposed by Western, colonial traditions. Enrique Chagoya, Gade, and Patrick Nagatani propose alternate histories that prioritize cultural hybridity, offering counter narratives to dominant historical accounts. While others meditate on time鈥檚 fleeting nature through the motif of the memento mori, Dario Robleto, Antonette Rosato, and Gretchen Marie Schaefer use art to underscore the transience of human life, extending a tradition dating back to artists like Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Together, these works reveal time not as a fixed reality, but a notion shaped by perception, culture, and power.
Turn, Turn, Turn: Picturing Time is generously supported by 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 student Arts and Cultural Enrichment fees and CU Art Museum members. The museum acknowledges the collaborative effort of all museum staff in presenting this exhibition: Pedro Caceres, Elizabeth van der听Marck-Gregg, Stephen听Martonis, Maggie听Mazzullo, and our team of museum attendants.听Turn, Turn, Turn is curated by Hope Saska with Bella Malherbe.