We fill up our time with tasks, purpose, duty and creating memories, in hopes of taking our subjective existence seriously with intrinsic value.

This way, we create value by affirming time and living it, and not simply obsessing over its passing.

Time is our scarcest resource. It is completely non-renewable. One thing humanity can all agree on is its intrinsic direction or order: past - present - future. How we experience time is not linear, because life is a subjective experience. What is similar is our desire to prolong our experience of time, and our attempt to find ourselves closer to a climactic moment in our narrative. We have a natural desire to extend the duration of anticipation, to linger and savour all the elements that go into the build-up of our lives, while acknowledging the detours and setbacks. It is this very experience that ties us together.

“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet” – Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

This quotation demonstrates the fundamental part of human nature and our reluctance to accept the role we play in our demise/success and constructive/unconstructive use of time. We are all given a set of tools to use, which we are tested by our belief system or lack thereof, to investigate our gifts, our lacks, our limits and understanding of the powerful finite territory of the present. The artists in this exhibition are encouraged to explore the passage of time that allows questions to unfold, characters to be drawn and findings to be resolved.

13 Artists, with 26 artworks on display, participating in partnership with The Mount Nelson Hotel & Investec Cape Town Art Fair.