Temple Time, 2016 © Ryan Trecartin Courtesy the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Sprüth Magers
Temple Time, 2016 © Ryan Trecartin Courtesy the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Sprüth Magers

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RYAN TRECARTIN "Temple Time"

2019-03-15
2019-03-31

Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a windowless convention center – Temple Time unfolds like a horror-movie group expedition in a campsite wasteland. Exploring the mildly eerie wilderness substitute, the characters talk about what they see instead of how they feel, giving the impression that everything they encounter is a discovery. For some characters these discoveries feel like memories of events that are about to repeat – the past and the future seem to occur simultaneously via overlapping layers of reality. The use of different video-capturing technologies – including handheld cameras, drones, and GoPro action cameras mounted to the actors’ bodies – offers numerous perspectives and vantage points, reinforcing Trecartin’s exploitation of cinematic discontinuities. In Temple Time, purpose and agency are constantly delayed and the multi-linear narratives are expressed in a networked sense of time.





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    2019-03-15

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On Exhibition

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Solo show

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Solo show

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Permanent Exhibition

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114 years