The exhibition title changes every day to reflect the day’s date. Before the exhibition opens, its title is April 3, 2026; after the exhibition closes, it will be referred to as May 17, 2026.

The exhibition includes work by José Castillo-Pazos, Eloise Hess and On Kawara.

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Awake Without Exception layers dozens of monotype prints within encaustic medium to create a glassy, liquid image. Each monotype is a trace of the original photograph. The becoming of the image is slowed and absorbed; a material metaphor for the emotional vision of memory. A digital clock is pictured in the slippage between two instances. The liquid crystals of the hour and minute are momentarily blank, leaving only the colon and its reflection in the marble bedside table it sits on. In a childhood home in Vermont, in a bedroom nobody sleeps in, a time machine is out of sync, blinking unwatched in irregular intervals.

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Water Falls Once is a sequence of 80 slides, individually cut and mounted from 4 rolls of 35mm color negatives. Hess photographed a nearby waterfall from one position, clicking and winding the film as quickly as the camera allowed. The photographs are horizontal while the slides are cut vertically; no slide contains a full image. Each image, projected on the wall long enough to absorb our attention but not lose it, is composed of partial frames, including the gap between frames, the sprocket holes that track the film, and the information in its margins. Hess’ father wanders into the frame on occasion. Processes proceed at their own innate speed: gravity accelerating the falling water, the camera’s mechanics of hands and gears, the photosensitive chemistry of the film, the synaptic speed of our perception in the gallery. The pace of projection, in an ongoing cycle, mimics the waterfall, the time it takes a single drop to fall and the time that a single slide holds our attention. A meditation on motion and stillness, the boundless and the particular, Hess registers these incongruous speeds, in attention to the delay between life and its representation. Water Falls Once is Eloise Hess’ first film work since 2012.

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See the full exhibition here

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