Time To Start Over

Time To Start Over is a group exhibition that brought together artworks by artists Lauren Hall, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino and Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley). Scientists suggest that we are entering a new geological epoch, termed the Anthropocene, in which the natural world bears the unmistakable mark of the human hand. Using this speculative scenario as a figurative starting point, Time To Start Over occasioned works of sculpture, mixed-media assemblage and video as immanent “findings” from the evolving surface layer of history. Here, an archaeological approach, or attitude, regarding exhibition making was taken up as a procedural and conceptual concern. In order to position the works as “new” representations of nature, Time To Start Over explored various parallel critical structures and dialogues of "new histories," characterized most notably through the notion of “aftermaths” and “uncanny returns” in the realms of contemporary art theory, art history, and aesthetic philosophy