Temporary Suspension of Time

Every camera has a shutter which makes it possible for an image to be fixed on photosensitive material. Kinga Nowak’s Shutter is a two-part standing object forming a window of sorts through which the exhibition can be looked at. The object, in primary colours, opens up and frames a view of the exhibition. The camera shutter opens and the image can be fixed on photosensitive material – a photograph has been taken. The picture in Nowak’s piece is frozen time. It shows what is between times – suspended chronology, intermediate time.

(excerpt from the curatorial text)