Time After Time
Passages Centre d'Art Contemporain•May 17, 2025 — Aug 09, 2025
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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...More
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Time After Time
Passages Centre d'Art Contemporain•May 17, 2025 — Aug 09, 2025
Press Release
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...More