Things Take the Time They Take

Robin Love

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Things Take the Time They Take is comprised of nine individuals memorizing Marianne Moore’s 3-line poem “Poetry” on camera. Each participant was filmed alone, given the poem, paper and pen, and left to do whatever was necessary (and take as long as they needed) to recite the poem without the prompt.

Within the installation each person occupies their own video pane and is looped within their own time: when they finish the task, they exit the frame and their loop begins again. As such, the installation is never in two moments the same; a new poetry emerges through the accidental interplay of the looping improvised performances.

As a large-scale work, the images are projected life-sized on the gallery wall.