Darren Almond: In Light of Time
In Easter Term 2019, °µÍø½ûÇø hosted In Light of Time, a new exhibition of work from Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond.
Across all media – film, photography, painting, sculpture, audio-installation – the work of Darren Almond hovers over the puzzle of time and how it is understood, measured, sensed and represented. Time is the dimension in which we confront our own limitations as individuals, families, societies, species; but it is also the medium in which we grow and learn to collaborate in coming to terms with those limitations and what they can teach us.
The works on display included a photographic representation of the stars visible from the southern hemisphere; a set of paintings using conductive metal pigments that seem to hesitate between revealing and concealing the workings of a numerical system; and a set of sculptural plaques bearing verbal messages that are as emphatic as they are mysterious.
Shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2005, Almond's work featured in Charles Saatchi's 1997 Sensation show and has been exhibited across the world. 
