Melanie Smith: 5 Minutes (2020)

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Pavement Gallery presents Melanie Smith’s 5 Minutes (2020) in an exhibition opening in March 2022. The work highlights the influence that signs and signals hold over our lives, by reducing an electronic bus timetable to glowing, flashing blips and dots. Jumbled lights, number and occasional words resist any decipherable logic, querying our localities within cities and fragmenting the quotidian urban existence into a chaotic montage. Blurring and blending the metropolitan areas we inhabit, Smith explores the aesthetic saturation of modern cities, revealing the thinly veiled entropic pull behind every bustling urban environment - as evidenced by the fragmentary footage of 5 Minutes (2020).