Time and Space Died Yesterday (2009) is a body of work comprised of a series of 8 photographs, 5 of which are installed at Las Cienegas Projects. The series is inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1962 film, L’Eclisse, and the cityscape and architecture of EUR, a suburb of Rome established by Mussolini as the site of the never-realized World’s Fair of 1942 and the future seat of a Fascist Italian empire. In the 1950’s, EUR was revisited by Futurist architects who looked toward innovation and technology (rather than a heroic past) to inspire designs for a utopian city.
Using L’Eclisse (The Eclipse) as an outdated psychogeographic map to explore this site of intersecting and overlapping fascist and capitalist utopian visions, Seder creates a series of still images for a new imagined narrative. In her narrative, Seder pieces together fragments of other narratives from L’Eclisse, modernism, utopian visions, science fiction, dystopias, and personal events. The title of the series, swiped from Marionetti’s 1909 Futurist Manifesto, returns to the Futurists’ vision of the collapsing of time and history into a fast-moving, ever-renewing present and the potential violence that may erupt from such an act.
December 19, 2009 - Jan 16, 2010
Opening reception December 19th 7-10 pm
Las Cienegas Projects
2045 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca 90034
(Part of a group show with David Lamelas, video and Ray Barrie, sculpture)
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