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MU Hybrid Art House: Metabolising Time

“For centuries, the Western conception of time has been shaped by a single narrative of civilisation: that of progress, acceleration, standardisation, control and technological mastery. Time as a linear horizon – something to be conquered, optimised, manipulated and possessed. It is a concept built upon the promises of modernity and inextricably linked to its violence: colonialism, ecological devastation, racial capitalism, and the systematic suppression of other ways of inhabiting and processing time.”

“Metabolising Time creates a space for such processes. What unfolds here are not fixed narratives or singular trajectories, but ongoing negotiations with time itself – its sediments, its fractures, its rhythms and its potential new compositions.”

--- Alexander Burenkov, Angelique Spaninks, Marijn Bril and Rawad Baaklini, curatorial statement

Photo credit: Hanneke Wetzer.