Jean Baudrillard, Fiona Connor, Ánima Correa, Louis Eisner Raúl Guerrero, Van Hanos, Olivia Van Kuiken, Norman Lindsay Emma Mcintyre, Jonny Negron, Irma Vep, Peng Zuqiang

The gelid paradox of the vampire—in which life is invited into eternity through its cold suspension in death—is a negative construct that is familiar to artworks and their states of being.

Oceans of Time is an exhibition that follows what circulates in and around the mythological and metaphorical imaginings of vampirism and runs into questions of suspension, duplication, necromancy, desire, and the nocturnal.

The artwork might recognize itself in the vampire: both creatures arise at the point of indistinction between the illusory and the Real. They are both thieves of form that supply their spoils to the business of reification. The artwork and the vampire have a material constitution that is lacquered with supposition. Not born, the vampire is transformed, its condition designated—a commanding and quick process of transformation that resembles the nearly magical remodeling of a banal object into a Readymade.