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“Speed is no longer a means but a destiny.” — Paul Virilio
dépendance is pleased to present E=mcScared, Alexandra Metcalf’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition takes up speed not as a thrill or a sign of progress, but as something stranger and more wearing: a pressure that gets into the body, bends attention, and makes time feel both compressed and unstable. Moving between the railway age and the always-on logic of the present, Metcalf looks at what happens when acceleration stops being an event and becomes an atmosphere.
The railway sits in the show as both historical reference and formal armature. In the nineteenth century, the train was one of modernity’s great promises, but it also brought new forms of strain. Metcalf returns to the old diagnosis of “railway madness,” a term used to describe dizziness, agitation, fainting, and nervous disturbance in passengers exposed to unprecedented speed. The phrase now sounds theatrical, but the symptoms remain familiar enough.…
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“Speed is no longer a means but a destiny.” — Paul Virilio
dépendance is pleased to present E=mcScared, Alexandra Metcalf’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition takes up speed not as a thrill or a sign of progress, but as something stranger and more wearing: a pressure that gets into the body, bends attention, and makes time feel both compressed and unstable. Moving between the railway age and the always-on logic of the present, Metcalf looks at what happens when acceleration stops being an event and becomes an atmosphere.
The railway sits in the show as both historical reference and formal armature. In the nineteenth century, the train was one of modernity’s great promises, but it also brought new forms of strain. Metcalf returns to the old diagnosis of “railway madness,” a term used to describe dizziness, agitation, fainting, and nervous disturbance in passengers exposed to unprecedented speed. The phrase now sounds theatrical, but the symptoms remain familiar enough.…
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