Past time is finite, future time is infinite

Kathleen Herbert Past time is finite, future time is infinite

A History Of The Receding Horizon 2015 video still

16 January - 14 February 2016

Here everything is drab and dry, void of colour and nearly still. There are no memories here, no community, no personal tributes. There is only a strange droning hum, and a flickering of strip lights to reveal the stairs climbing up and out. The walls bear testimony to former water damage and yet there is nobody around to care. In places, as if through a membrane, water seems to penetrate. It drips through the walls, corroding the dam’s tired concrete, it leaks into the void. There is a suggestion that water might eventually win the gradual erosion, and bring on another round of change, a sudden rush of movement and a new state of being.

– Nina Ernst, extract of All yields its place and goes, 2015

Kathleen Herbert lives and works in London. She has received several major awards from the Arts Council England South West, and British Council. Herbert’s proposals 'A History of The Receding Horizon' and ‘Their Land Is Our Country’ were recently selected for the ArtAngel Open Longlist and ArtAngel Open 100. Recent exhibitions include: A Light Shines in the Darkness, Film and Video Umbrella Tour, UK (2014-2015); Stable, MOBIA Museum of Biblical Art, New York (2014); Force of Nature: Picturing Ruskin’s Landscape, Millennium Museum, Sheffield, (2013); Triumph of the Will, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London (2013); Garden of Reason, National Trust, Ham House, London (2013); Restless Times, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich (2012); Firstsite, Colchester (2012); VOLTA NY, New York, (2010).

Friday 29 January 7pm - As part of SLAM Last Fridays, Kathleen Herbert will be in conversation with curator Nina Ernst.

Nina Ernst is a curator and producer. For over a decade Nina has commissioned and produced artists working in moving image, most recently as the Development Director of Film and Video Umbrella. She is now based in Singapore and as the Acting Head of Programmes at the ArtScience Museum she curates a programme of moving image works that investigate the intersection of art, science, technology and culture.

Read the accompanying essay All yields its place and goes written by Nina Ernst on the occasion of the exhibition.

Kathleen Herbert Time Creates Great Distances In Life, I 2015 steel shelf, giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 x 7 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Time Creates Great Distances In Life, I 2015 steel shelf, giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 x 7 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Time Creates Great Distances In Life, I 2015 steel shelf, giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 x 7 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite X 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite X 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite XI 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
and Time Creates Great Distances In Life, II 2015 antique celestial print mounted on metal plate
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite X 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
and Time Creates Great Distances In Life, III 2015 antique celestial print mounted on metal plate
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Time Creates Great Distances In Life, III 2015 antique celestial print mounted on metal plate
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite I, II, III and IX 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite I, II, III and IX 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite I, II and III 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite I, II and III 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert Past Time Is Finite, Future Time Is Infinite IX 2015 giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etch paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert A History Of The Receding Horizon 2015 HD video 26 minutes
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert A History Of The Receding Horizon 2015 HD video 26 minutes
photograph by Oskar Proctor

Kathleen Herbert A History Of The Receding Horizon 2015 HD video 26 minutes
photograph by Oskar Proctor

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