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Counter is a time-based installation featuring three new films by ms. z tye. Each, twenty minutes in length, plays in succession and on a loop. Within these vignettes, tye invites audiences into diaristic self-portraits that explore three key themes of the exhibition: Tasking purification rituals inspired by religious notions of cleansing and godliness; Relationships and the lessons forged through intimacy with others and space; and finally, Reaping the Benefits—an amalgamation of these inquiries.
Together, these self-portrait diaries trace a laborious yet deeply worthwhile meditation on the ephemeral nature of time and the commitments of ritual and communion. True to tye’s signature playfulness and mischief, the exhibition space is punctuated by what she calls “ruptures”—unexpected interventions that expand and complicate the very dimensions of time.
-Kimberly Drew