Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/28/2025 - 08/09/2026
12:00 am
Location
Mattress Factory
Categories
Local artist, educator and filmmaker Rebecca Shapass’s first solo exhibition is comprised of a film installation and a spatial intervention in an adjacent room.
The film and the installation play with horror, not as genre, but as a method: ghostly presences emerge not from what is seen, but what is felt. They unfold around the desire to preserve a decaying space, guiding us into a house frozen in time, which is maintained in the stillness of its décor, taste, and temporality. Nothing has been moved since the person who lived there passed away.
The title is a quote from Roman poet Virgil’s (70BCE – 19BCE) acclaimed poem Georgics and translates from Latin into “time vanishes”. It evokes the urgency of holding onto what is slipping away: those we love, the lives we live, and the traces they leave behind — and within — us.
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