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Exhibition Catalogue - Simon Finn's Instability (
2018)
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Abstract
The art of Simon Finn has always had a markedly temporal dynamic. Vast structures built and annihilated
again and again across different media, their fragmentation across space and time simultaneously
methodical and darkly chaotic. Roiling waters and eldritch surfaces held captive in their unrest. Finn’s
works render cycles of construction and disintegration, of stasis and motion, in ways that shed light upon
the underlying structures of our experience of time while shattering simplistic notions of linearity. This is
nowhere more apparent than in Instability, through which Finn allows us to explore the intertwining of
personal and historical time, ancestral memory and radical futurity, artefactual form and temporal
function.