About Time

About

“And indeed there will be time, for the yellow smoke that slides along the street, rubbing its back upon the window panes; there will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create; and time for all the works and days of hands, that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea.”

- TS Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Change is the only constant. In Buddhism, there is an emphasis on recognising the impermanence of all things - whether material or mental, everything is in a constant state of flux, destined for decline and destruction. The Japanese concept of mono no aware, meaning the "pathos of things", embodies a subtle sorrow for this transient nature. "I Ching" (Book of Changes), as one of humanity's earliest efforts to position itself within the cosmos, employs sixty-four hexagrams as a system model for change. It advocates for a mindset of positive adaptation, seeking to understand and grasp the nature of change.

The exhibition "About Time" encapsulates these ideas through various art forms -paintings, photography, sculptures, film, and installations - offering a shared space to contemplate the fleeting and the eternal in our lives.