"Future in the Past is used to express the idea that in the past you thought something would happen in the future. It does not matter if you are correct or not." (www.englishpage.com)

This body of work was inspired by the short story, "The other," by Jorge Luis Borges. In this story, Borges meets himself in the past as a young man. He begins to wonder, if he has a recollection of this encounter when he was a young man. He wonders if the past foretold the future. This exhibition is about looking at a city, not at its past, but at the future this past might have promised.

The works in the exhibition were all developed during a residency in Buenos Aires in June and July of 2009. They take the form of video loops, a looped slide show and a series of still images. All of the work draws from an ongoing observation and documentation of some of the serial and repetitive elements of the Argentine capital's urban landscape.

When making my work, I look to cities as sites of phenomena that have both a spatial and a temporal presence. I consider how urban environments affect the perception of the individual. Reworking strategies of Minimal Art, I present a careful arrangement of aural, visual and structural elements. The repetitive sparseness of these arrangements allow for the viewer's presence to complete the experience of the work.

My work thus questions how we perceive these phenomena, how we perceive cities as material objects, as spatial forms and as temporal structures.

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