Fragments of the past coalesce to reveal a stark reality in Sid Natividad’s latest exhibition. Here, ragged and shifting textures alert us to forms that dwell in isolation, shattered, ravaged, eroded, and pieced back together by forces of time. Drawing inspiration from Carlo Rovelli’s exploration of time, Natividad is interested in depicting time as continuous and durational motion, susceptible to granular and explosive changes alike.
Relics—provoked here in forms like fossils, imprints of a hand, a mannequin head—are meant to capture time as moving restlessly between the past, present and future. Natividad brings us right into the fold of time, feeling for how these objects transform, plasticize, and reproduce across centuries.
Text excerpt: Sean Carballo
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