Propelling Empty Set into its first series of online exhibitions Rachel Sydlowski constructs a psychological domestic space interrupted by the unmitigated expansion of nature with Slow Spring. This stop motion animation describes the slowing and speeding of time as it shifts from linear to circular, diving through the hidden trap door of stasis. A sitting room is presented as an untapped place of imagination and perception, past the anxieties and worries of what will come next.

This digital durational installation, a new direction for the artist, captures the individual and collective experiences of the global lockdown where the balance of disaster and beauty intermingle and are fused to the double helix of destruction and creation. 

Sydlowski states, “the ever-changing composition vacillates between the explicit and implicit. Flora and fauna are represented with printed representations, growing and multiplying, eventually overtaking humans’ carefully created physical environment”. Time and perception fold into themselves and hang in the balance where humans become absent from the equation of progress.

Rachel Sydlowski

Slow Spring

May 7 through May 31, 2020
Virtual Opening Thursday, May 14th at 7:00pm
Artist Talk Saturday, May 23 at 1:00pm @empty.set.gallery