A Point in Time

Abigail Reynolds

The concept of time and ‘point of view’ play an important role in the artist’s work. In her own words: ‘…I slice apart … rooms, building on the rupture of consumption’; she weaves ‘one photographic space across another’ in her cuts.
Abigail Reynolds presents the viewer with the illusion of occupying multiple times and/or places simultaneously. She works with historical sites depicted in photographs taken from old mass-produced books. Splicing two or three photographs together in a precise manner effects a collapse of time or place. The varying textures of the images, the layers and folds promise access to the past while at the same time denying it. The past unfolds before our eyes, yet, at the same, we are shut out by the ruffled grid, unable to reach the past we imagine ourselves being drawn into.