EXHIBITIONS
Time After Time
COMING NEXT FROM 17.05.2025 TILL 09.08.2025
WITH: Vanessa Brown
Time After Time is Canadian artist Vanessa Brown’s first solo exhibition in France. Based in Luxembourg, Brown explores in this project both the persistence of gestures and recurring motifs over time, as well as what might lie “after time” — in a more metaphysical sense.
The exhibition’s title, borrowed from Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 melancholic pop ballad, evokes philosophical reflections on the nature of time: not only as linear succession or becoming, but also as simultaneity, evanescence, and transition. Themes of care, protection, and sorority run through the song’s lyrics — themes that resonate deeply within Brown’s artistic practice. Her work blends craft-based techniques into installations that are at once dreamlike and physically grounded, balancing fragility and presence.
Brown’s practice navigates a tension between temporalities: between the urgencies of the present and a poetic attention to the traces of gestures and stories that came before us. Recurring symbols often appear in her work — a hand, a moth, a key, stitched knots, armored dresses… — suspended somewhere between dream and reality. Many of the forms featured in the exhibition draw direct inspiration from the local context of Troyes, with its deep ties to hosiery, care, and the ongoing preservation of this material heritage still visible in the public space today.
Time After Time was conceived entirely for the art centre and unfolds across all five of its exhibition rooms. The project extends into the city with Vapeurs, a site-specific installation created for the Apothicairerie de Troyes — a partner in the project and a rich source of inspiration for the artist.
AGENDA
Opening
>from 6:00 pm
>Friday, May 16, 2025
