A Moment In Infinity

Vida Heydari Contemporary is pleased to present, “A Moment in Infinity” showcasing eleven photographic
practices that seek to reinvent the ways in which we negotiate with assigned meaning, and narratives of images by employing techniques that range from collage to digital, and physical manipulation of photographs. In doing so, the artists engage with themes that range from the human psyche to the politics of memory and gender, and broader questions concerned with urbanisation and environment, alongside other contemporary crises of our times, utilising photography as a site of discursive engagement that can open up alternative modalities of interpreting our present.

Artists break chronologies in distance and time and combine bits from diverse realities to create wholes that become spaces between the images as much as the photographs themselves. These collages, whether
materialised through physical impositions, or digitally mediated composites, establish radically altered
associations with meaning by contrasting the tangible against the surreal. Through an act that seeks to blur lines between the material, and the abstract surrounding it, the photo highlights its own expanse blending realities to expose the often overlooked, obscured, and mystified aspects of our lives that otherwise evade an easy, and linear articulation.

“A Moment in Infinity” builds upon the pliability of truth as captured by photography as an engagement with an artistic medium that presents outcomes towards an effect which is at once ruptured and unified